Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
An interesting piece of information to come out of the Microsoft and Yahoo messaging alliance is the news that Microsoft is still evaluating whether to include the Mac version of Windows Live Messenger in its interoperability plans.
Frankly this does not really come as a surprise. Microsoft has always
deliberately kept its IM releases for Mac users behind releases for
their Windows counterparts.
Just think about it. You’re a teenage Mac user and most of your friends
are Windows users. They all talk to each other at night after school
using Windows Live Messenger (or MSN Messenger as it was once called).
You can text message your friends but can’t talk to them because your
version of MSN Messenger doesn’t support voice. You feel left out so
despite the fact that you like your Mac, you ditch it for whatever
price you can get on eBay and replace it with a cheap white box Windows
PC.
This might seem like a way out story but I can assure you it’s true. It
happened in my family. My son wanted to stay connected with his friends
and they were using PCs and MSN Messenger. Never mind that his iMac was
ten times the computer that their PCs were.
Of course, the advent of Intel Macs that can run Windows has changed
this. The problem could also go away with the fact that Yahoo Messenger
runs on Macs and that’s supposedly going to be interoperable with
Windows Live Messenger, although from early reports we’re a long way
from a finished product.
Or if you really wanted to take a bold step, you could tell your
friends to use Skype which runs on Mac, Windows and Linux equally well.
That’s just an opinion of course and, no, they don’t advertise and
didn’t pay us to say that.
David Bass
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