Congratulations to the Yahoo! Messenger programmers on the major improvements to the Windows and Blackberry client chat programs.
The Windows messenger client Build 9.0.0.2152 no longer leaks handles, although it still uses about 3x the memory and handles (User and GDI objects) of the Skype chat client. (I wonder if the Yahoo! programmers just fixed the old leaks, or used a new framework that doesn’t leak?)
The Blackberry messenger client (the official RIM download) has a lot more features, and remembers previous sessions when disconnected.
It is still missing a way to email or cut-and-paste a full chat session, and still doesn’t try hard enough to reconnect after entering a tunnel, for example. I used to have to pull the battery from my phone weekly to do a hard reset, but not any more.
