It's almost been a year since it was revealed, and finally, the first beta of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista is out. I downloaded my copy this morning.

Back in January, we were shown a preview video of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista; this totally new application that supposedly takes advantage of Vista's advanced graphics engine, and gives an overall new and better user experience.

Installation was just as good, if not a bit more seamless than Version 8.1 and the beta of version 9, with an overall black feeling to it.

When started, the app has a new splash screen that says nothing other than "Yahoo! Messenger", and the logo, obviously.

So, when the program loaded, I signed in, only to find only a minute fraction of what we were promised on that video preview oh so long ago. Yes, Messenger for Vista has a nice appearance, but that's prettymuch it. I know it's still a beta, but gosh, they've had almost a year, and even when they showed us that early video, it looked like a decent upgrade at least. But, when you actually use it, you see that, like Windows Vista itself, Yahoo Messenger for Vista is just plain shameful and sad to all of us that waited so long.

To me, it's all eye-candy.

Let's hope Yahoo rolls out another beta soon, because right now, I can tell that this one was built on Vista. Think about that.