They do have an option to remove it from the new tabs.

Not sure why I need the new music interface as Winamp continues to shine for me. Thank god they left classic view in tact, however it appears it needs some work from the myriad of changes. The interface though new, is a mimic of the Microsoft XP Bubble Look. Program is now over 11mb in size and is bloated and out of control. Personally, I give this app a 5 because I have tried it and worked with EVERY feature. You can change the skin in Messenger -> Change Skin.awww, so sorry to dissapoint you, no points this round.

Yahoo Messenger needs to have some revenue come from a great service. AOL and MSN have ads, and nobody's griping about that.

Lastly, fine.good, so what if it has ads? As far as I can tell, they're Yahoo! Sponsored Ads, and if you don't like them, get a 3rd party app like AdMuncher or Ytunnel. Stop bashing this program because you've never tried it. Secondly, I don't want to hear nothing about Messenger looking the same as far as the UI, if anyone recalls before version 6.0, yahoo! Messenger was built off of the same GUI that Windows has had. If you actually took some time to sit down and work with this application, you can obviously tell that Yahoo is now working with PC to phone calling and have implemented this feature into builds 7.5 and up, each build corrects a bug and enhances the program's interface/features.

Download yahoo im