Living without an instant messenger on the Internet is like living without a mobile phone in your practical life. Yahoo! Messenger is one of the most used Instant Messengers used all around the world apart from other famous instant messengers such as MSN, AOL and Google Talk and the good news is that Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta is out and is ready for you to download.

Yahoo! Messenger 9 is the brand new version in the Yahoo Messenger family and is currently in a beta phase.

Yahoo! Messenger 9 now supports Windows Vista by default and is available in six new different languages. This new version has a lot of GUI changes and a very attractive new design. There are also some annoying new alerts which ask you to choose from IM, VoIP chat and SMS every time you click on a contact to start a conversation.

Besides Yahoo! Messenger 9 has some very new interesting features which make content sharing easy and fast e.g now whenever you post a YouTube video link in one of your conversions, automatically the video is displayed in-line and the same goes for services like Yahoo! Videos and Flickr too.

Plus you will find some cool new avatars and emoticons in this new version. Yahoo! Messenger 9 can be download from here.