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Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

9 durable postsStarted 2012-11-07Latest 2012-11-13
#125145Post 1 of 9

[quote]All those days and nights you spend chatting with your friends on Windows Live Messeger will soon be just a memory.

Microsoft has announced it is bidding adieu to Messenger after more than 12 years. The company will retire Messenger apps "in the coming months" for all regions worldwide, except for mainland China, Brian Hall, general manager of Microsoft's Windows Live unit, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

Microsoft encouraged users to switch over to Skype, which offers video and voice calling in addition to instant messenger. The company recently released Skype 6.0 for Mac and Windows, which allows you to sign in to Skype using a Microsoft account. Doing so will transport all your Messenger contacts to Skype automatically. [/quote] [url="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411843,00.asp"]Microsoft Saying Goodbye to Windows Live Messenger | News & Opinion | PCMag.com [/url]

[url="http://blogs.windows.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2012/11/06/the-next-chapter-for-the-windows-live-messenger-network.aspx"]The Windows Blog [/url]

Time for certain folks (you know who you are :lol:) to move to GTalk! :)

#1655479Post 2 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

Never used that crapola anyway. :lol:

#1655482Post 3 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

I heard they are merging the back ends of the two platforms so your MSN accounts should get exported to Skype. I use neither one any more so BAM MicroSoft.

I have surrendered my privacy to Google instead.

#1655485Post 4 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

^Yup they are integrating/replacing it with Skype.

#1655504Post 5 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

no fucking wonder... every time u signed into that shit u got a tracking cookie warning blasting up on the antivirus, must of put a lot of people off... i,m now using win 8 and all my messenger contacts have now been switched to skype which now crashes every fucking time you do a video call

#1655642Post 6 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

Wow.

#1655819Post 7 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

Time to move to Mainland China then! Always found the video quality in WLM much better than Skype tbh.

#1655833Post 8 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

I've noticed more people using Facebook chat or Gtalk than MSN these days but it'll be sad to see MSN go like ICQ.

#1656105Post 9 of 9

Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

^^^ Ditto, still remember when I first used ICQ, it was sooooo cool, you could customize the colors and sounds.

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