Did anybody else notice the rainbow colors on Google Talk match the exact same colors as Microsoft's butterfly? Check it out in the screenshots. Both color schemes are exactly the same if you view it from left-to-right (going clockwise in the case of the MSN logo). I should open these up in Photoshop and see if they are the exact same RGB scheme.

Those Google engineers sure do have a sense of humor!
Not to mention some serious bravado considering Microsoft is currently suing Google to prevent an employee from jumping ship from Microsoft to Google.
This got me thinking. I knocked Google Talk yesterday for not having emoticons. I wonder if the reason why Google didn't add emoticons to Google Talk was due to Microsoft's emoticon patent filed in July 2005. Can it be that Microsoft scared Google into not including emoticons in Google Talk? Nah, Google's not afraid of Microsoft. Google is just toying with Microsoft. Right Google?
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Heck of an observation! This is getting humerous.
I am really pleased that GTalk avoids graphical emotion icons because I like to use IM for efficient communication.
GTalk recognizes emotion icons and colours them blue to stand out... enough for me :-)
Good observation reg the colour scheme.
I'm with you - give me simple emoticons, such as : ) : D ; ) etc
However, for GTalk to reach critical mass, we have to include all the teenagers who love their emoticons, ringback tones, etc. ; )
Google Talk should at least have a preference where you can enable/disable it. So if a remote user who likes emoticons send me an emoticon it appears as plain text on my screen, but the full graphic on their screen.
Everybody's happy and you get the best of both worlds.
Current Gtalk seems a bit simple/stupid. maybe that's just what Google hope it to be. however, see my blog entry about GTalk vs. Skype.
the latest gmail embeded "chat" is wonderful. i like that and am finding more and more friends begin to use it. it will help Google capture more IM users by its convenience - it doesn't require installation of any additional client software. it's amazing.
Gtalk have emoticons when you are using it in gmail window. means if you are chatting in your email window, then you can use many emoticons.
See the list
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=34056
It's not only about GTalk and MSN but you can see the microsoft logo and google logo contains the same color i.e. red,yellow,green and blue.
There does appear to be something brewing between Microsoft and Google.
I read an article by an SEO guy who seemed to think that maybe Microsoft is ready to take on google.
http://searchstrategy.com.au/featured/the-battle-for-search-supremacy-google-vs-microsoft-round-2/
I don't really know if he's right but he does make some interesting points.