Two months later, Microsoft finally stops supporting 15-year-old messaging service Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger

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Two months later, Microsoft finally stops supporting 15-year-old messaging service Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger).

In fact, the company has announced the transfer of all users with Windows Live on Skype back in 2012, but the last stronghold of the program remained China. Until recently.

Microsoft has begun to warn of Chinese users of Windows Live Messenger service shutdown imminent Thursday. They were notified that by October 31, you must go on Skype. Anyone who follows the advice, Microsoft pledged a bonus in the form of free calls Skype.



Chat service MSN Messenger was launched in 1999 as an alternative to the AIM service from the company AOL. Later he added a function to transfer your photos, video calls and gaming. But it did not save him.

In the early 2000s, for many people, MSN Messenger has become an important channel of communication, primarily with foreign users (eg customers to freelancing). Service was very popular in the United States, and in our region reigned supreme ICQ.

Even in 2009, Windows Live Messenger audience consisted of 330 million active users. But by this time most of them were from China. But even in China, the Windows Live Messenger in recent years, hopelessly lost competition QQ-messenger from local developers.

The audience gradually decreased, while the number of Skype users increased to 300 million in 2012. Buy Skype for $ 8.5 billion by Microsoft in 2012, issued a final sentence of death legendary Windows Live Messenger.