Microsoft's new beloved son, Skype, has just received another gift from his adoptive mother. This gift is the “discontinuation” (closure, retirement, annihilation… or other synonyms that you prefer) of Windows Live Messenger.
Yes, the famous “MSN Messenger” will no longer be the preferred instant communication program of Microsoft.
In 2013, the instant communicator “official”Will stop working. Born on July 22, 1999, MSN Messenger promised to be the service that allowed you to talk to a person through instant conversations over the Internet. It was successful for a long time, until the popularity of this communicator started to fall, thanks to the appearance of Facebook, with its integrated instant communicator and the expansion of services like Skype and GTalk ...
The process of “favoring” Skype over Live Messenger was very visible when Microsoft integrated session initiation (log in) to Microsoft's account (Hotmail, Live, Outlook…
There are only a few months left before MSN Retirement, so will anyone miss this app?
[Source]: The Verge
I miss the ability to appear online only to a few friends. On skype I have to go online for everyone or invisible to everyone. Unless I haven't found such an option.