Microsoft, Yahoo Ink Instant- Message Pact

In the war to be the market leader in the instant messaging market over the Internet, American Online (AOL) has always been the leader and pioneer of it all. In the early 1990's, AOL was the first provider that gave its user a tool to communicate with each other over the Internet in real time. But it wasn't until November 1996, when a group of Israeli software developers launched a free instant messaging client called "I seek you" (ICQ) that the instant messaging boom online really took off.
In today's cyber world, instant-messaging clients provide more than just plain text communication.…