Although it's been a month already since Yahoo! Messenger completely cut Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, they are still advertising it. It's a sad thought that a company that promises a product, cuts it away from it's users, then still tease us users later with it.

I prefer to call this "falsely advertising" because they still advertise us to get Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Beta even though it's no longer offered. If you are on a Vista machine, go to http://downloads.yahoo.com/ and scroll down to the Yahoo! Messenger download box. It says Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Beta. It is no longer being offered though Yahoo! still has it up. If you click the Download button, you'll go the download page of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.

Now if you click the back button of your browser and then click "More Info" where the advertisement of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Beta you'll see:

Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Beta
This version of Yahoo! Messenger
is built from the ground up for
Windows Vista. Enjoy new
emoticons, tabbed conversations
and a new sidebar gadget that
allows you to always keep tabs on
your closest friends.
Go to Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Beta

It says nothing about getting Yahoo! Messenger 9.0. Seems like false advertisement to me :)

So should we, the Vista users who were led to believe and hoped for a new Vista only product, sue Yahoo!? I think that's going to far. I think we should finally boycott Yahoo!

This is now a war, Vista users VS Yahoo! Deception should not go unattended. Falsely advertising products should be the last thing on the minds of  a big corperate company like Yahoo! They failed us once and now they are lying.

Boycott Yahoo!

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