In a shocking upset over last year’s winner, Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 was selected by About.com voters this year over Adium for Best Mac IM of 2009.
Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 offers a wide range of features made popular by their Windows-based client, including free text messaging, Yahoo! Chat, free PC-to-PC calls, cheap PC-to-Phone calls, IM forwarding and archiving, status messaging and more. In addition, Yahoo! Messenger for Mac users can also chat with friends on the Windows Live Messenger client, making the network larger than ever.
Check out intern Zachary Knight’s review of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac and find out why he believes it’s as close to native as an IM client for Mac can get.
How Readers Voted
- Adium – 324 votes (11 percent)
- AIM for Mac – 80 votes (two percent)
- iChat – 174 votes (five percent)
- Microsoft Messenger for Mac– 130 votes (four percent)
- Yahoo! Messenger for Mac* – 2193 votes(75 percent)
