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.
Early reports from users on the ground have been highly critical about a number of usability aspects of the interoperability trial between Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger.
Users have complained that the software upgrade process is clumsy and
not intuitive. Some users have pointed out difficulties in transferring
contact lists between the two services. Others have complained that the
service does not notify contacts that they need to upgrade to the new
service if they want to be able to message each other.
Some users have complained that the functionality of the cross platform
system is bare bones, lacking the ability to share files, not to
mention voice contact.
What users are asking in a nutshell is why aren't the two companies
developing a messaging platform which provides a transparent upgrade
path for both messaging systems and which enables users to communicate
seamlessly with users of the older versions of both systems.
As both Microsoft and Yahoo have pointed out this is only a beta trial.
However, until the two companies can make the process of the two
messaging systems talking to each other a no brainer for users, the
dream of a 350 million strong messaging community will remain just
that.
David Bass
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