14 DAY TRIAL // The Sunnyvale company Yahoo prepares to upgrade Yahoo Mail from the beta stage to a final product, introducing several new goodies that might increase the number of consumers. Yahoo Mail has been a beta technology for a very long time, all the users having the possibility to use the new interface instead of the classic one only for testing purposes. However, numerous users migrated to the beta version of Yahoo Mail, looking for better performance and new functions but sometimes, it worked quite slow and buggy. The parent company announced that Yahoo Mail will be upgraded to the final product stage on Monday, coming with several new goodies.
At the beginning of the year, Yahoo mentioned two of the updates that were supposed to be implemented into the technology and bring better functionality for the users: Yahoo Messenger interoperability and unlimited storage size for all the users. Starting with May 9, 2007, Yahoo started implementing these two features for all the users around the globe.
"We are really bringing text and instant messaging to a new audience. My mother now instant messages through mail to my children. She can send messages to my son while he is at soccer practices; he carries his mobile phone everywhere," said Yahoo! Mail vice president, John Kremer according to The Money Times. "We'll continue to offer both products for the foreseeable future and we'll let our users decide what's the right Yahoo Mail experience for them," he added for PC World.
According to this last source, it seems like Yahoo Mail will also bring some new features especially for the users from the US, India, Canada and Philippines. For example, Yahoo Mail will allow the local users to send SMS messages to the mobile phones by using a special function implemented into Yahoo Mail.