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Site claims that Microsoft should retire Windows Live Messenger

If you're a fan of Windows Live Messenger, affectionately known as MSN, the website The Verge reported bad news. According to the publication, Microsoft is expected to announce the end of the instant messaging service in the coming days. The intention is to promote the Skype service recently purchased by the company.

According to company officials, the profiles must be integrated with MSN Skype in the coming months. A survey states that 80% of users of Windows Live Messenger also have Skype account, which would facilitate the migration.

MSN was born on July 22, 1999 and revolutionized the way message exchange over the Internet. One of the strengths of the service was the integration with Hotmail e-mail service from Microsoft that is also being retired (give rise to Outlook). Since 2005, the service called Windows Live Messenger, whilst still being called by the MSN users. The latest version of the software was WLM 2011.

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Sounds more like a merge of Messenger into Skype.

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/11/skypewlm.html

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hate skype........

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Ziu +1

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Its staying open for China though :P

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