Another feature that is to watch out for is the SMS integration, a feature that allows one to send text messages from Yahoo Messenger on Vista to your friend’s mobile phone for FREE. The good thing about this option is that the end receiver doesn’t have to rely on a mobile instant messaging option on their phone in order to chat. There are some IM clients already employing services like text messaging, so this isn’t an entirely a new concept but this will become be proved to be a good service in the long run. Also integrated in the next Beta release for Vista are Mail alerts.

There are some features that are missing from Yahoo Messenger’s initial Vista release, so it’s would be good to know that some of these expected features will be made available in its future future updates. The release of Yahoo Messenger Beta for Vista is yet to be announced.