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Microsoft, Yahoo! linking their IM systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- California's Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday their instant messaging consumers will be able to connect with each other.

The so-called interoperability agreement will let global users of both Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger interact.

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The total number of consumers affected is about 25 million, about 44 percent of the global instant-messaging market, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Industry leader America Online owns about 56 percent of the worldwide market, said research firm Radicati Group Inc.

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