Bye bye WLM/MSN... Only Skype now

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3603014/windows-live-messenger-retirement-skype

Microsoft is working towards retiring its Windows Live Messenger client in favor of Skype. The Verge has learned through several sources that Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger service will be retired in the coming months and integrated into Skype. Microsoft has slowly been moving people over to the Messenger backend for Skype over the past few months, with around 80 percent of all IMs sent on Skype being handled by Messenger.

The company will announce the retirement of Windows Live Messenger soon, possibly as early as this week according to sources. The move follows efforts by Skype to link Microsoft accounts to Skype login names ahead of its global retirement plan for Windows Live Messenger. Users of Skype 6.0 for Mac and Windows are now greeted with options to log in using a Microsoft or Facebook account. The Verge reached out to Microsoft for comment on the retirement, we'll update you accordingly.

Goodbye MSN.

 

[Yeperdoodle]

I always disliked it anyway, I'm all for this.

 

Interesting. Looks like skype will have no rivals as to the best way to contact people for business deals.

 

[Dan<3]

Best start updating our signatures.

 

[Yenthe666]

Urgh. I hate to see MSN going, pretty handy..
Guess I'll have to adapt over to Skype than.

 

[I KO I]

Sad to see MSN go, prolly would have used skype more during my RS days if I had a mic/webcam back then.

 

[Silver]

I've started using Skype more often actually.
Although it is sad to see MSN go.

 

[Fantasy Factory]

Haven't used MSN in years. Been on Skype for ages now.

 

[Laptop65]

Eugh, first XP now this? Why change something that works fine already?

 

[stringcheese]

This sucks :/. I like to the feel of MSN for dealing with sythe and skype for dealing with friends,etc. I guess this is equivalent to the switch from XP to 7, lol.

 

[Siri]

None of my friends use msn anymore, I guess it was the best thing to do.

 

[justinkiller]

Honestly, it's about time. MSN has always given me problems, and skype is just so much better looking, plus it has mic to mic and video chats.

 

Honestly, it's about time. MSN has always given me problems, and skype is just so much better looking, plus it has mic to mic and video chats.

MSN has those features also, albeit poor quality. MSN+ better update their stuff for skype, I hate using stock standard skype :l

 

MSN is failing atm for me... It was time for this update.

 

[iJava]

MSN is buggy, I prefer Skype these days anyhow.

 

Well, skype IS better than msn and has always been. I've been using both msn and skype for trades, though.

 

[iJava]

Won't be till 2013 apparently.

 

[kill dank]

I never used it very much because it was shitty. It was a chore to use. I'm glad it will be gone.

 

[slysteeler]

I migrated to Skype years ago, but I do see where MSN messenger had advantages. There were more clients to use for MSN, whereas for Skype, there's only the original client to use. MSN used less resources than Skype, so it was better for old machines.

Sad to see it go, because I have very fond memories of long IM conversations on MSN, some good times there.

 

[S]

I personally prefer MSN, I guess more so because I've used it since is release. Will be sad to see it go. However, MSN was buggy as hell, opposed to how Skype is now.