outlook.com’s messenger and other messengers like yahoo.com or aol.com, not working?

I and having trouble getting the outlook.com and hotmail.com messenger to properly connect to other messengers ie: yahoo, gmail, and aol.

Could someone answer this and possibly give directions to fix it?

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I am using Outlook.com and it's messenger desktop to desktop.

Thank You.