Yahoo Messenger-Video Chat Recently Updated: Gets Even Better

For quite sometime, Yahoo Messenger has really been at the forefront of desktop video but also ignored by many. Even the former client SightSpeed as well as Skype all got the immense commendations from the press including the newcomer ooVoo. Confident that their numbers of installed users with video chat capability and consumption were dwarfing the competition, Yahoo kept their smiles and went along their merry way.

Not for long, now with Google joining the battle with their web based chat, Yahoo has made a big leap forward and implanted the GIPS Video Codec into Yahoo Messenger 10 for the Windows platform.

For many Yahoo video users, majority of whom are all in Asia, this will definitely brighten things up. The GIPS video codec has astounding clarity, depth and field of vision. More importantly, it handles transitions flawlessly, with absolutely no jumping when you are moving in front of the camera.

This is actually a huge win for both Yahoo and GIPS. Yahoo Messenger represents the most significant number of users all over the world with a major segment of those users are on Windows operated laptops and desktops. Provided how Yahoo Messenger hasn't ebbed away, most particularly outside of the USA, developing their video platform better is simply a significant commitment to the next wave of person-to-person communications. For a Global IP Solutions, the back to back wins with Google and Yahoo are suggesting to the market that top companies want to work with a less competitive codec provider against using Skype's SILK. Although SILK is royalty free, it is still associated with Skype and to both Yahoo and Google, Skype is the competition today.

From Yahoo, the message is clear: they provide their users with the best possible experience by developing the state-of-the-art; market-leading technologies for them deliver the best full screen video experience for free. And to do just that, they found it with GIPs.