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  • picklemonkey
    Double hoodie beer monster
    • Jun 2004
    • 15373
    #1

    Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

    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.
    Microsoft Saying Goodbye to Windows Live Messenger | News & Opinion | PCMag.com


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    Time for certain folks (you know who you are ) to move to GTalk!
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    • res0nat0r
      Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
      • May 2006
      • 14475
      #2
      Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

      Never used that crapola anyway.

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        • Kamal
          Administrator
          • May 2002
          • 28835
          #3
          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.
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            • res0nat0r
              Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
              • May 2006
              • 14475
              #4
              Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

              ^Yup they are integrating/replacing it with Skype.

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                • thebanned1
                  DUDERZ get a life!!!
                  • May 2009
                  • 5029
                  #5
                  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
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                    • feather
                      Shanghai ooompa loompa
                      • Jul 2004
                      • 20895
                      #6
                      Re: Windows Messenger retiring after 12 years

                      Wow.

                      i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

                      Originally posted by Hoff
                      a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
                      Originally posted by m1sT3rL
                      Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

                      I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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                        • demonAfro
                          Are you Kidding me??
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 3488
                          #7
                          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.

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                            • feather
                              Shanghai ooompa loompa
                              • Jul 2004
                              • 20895
                              #8
                              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.

                              i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

                              Originally posted by Hoff
                              a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
                              Originally posted by m1sT3rL
                              Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

                              I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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                                • dusk
                                  DUDERZ get a life!!!
                                  • Jun 2004
                                  • 7266
                                  #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.
                                  ~ You are what you think you are ~

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