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Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype
Entropy98 writes "Windows Live Messenger will be shut down by March 2013, after nearly 13 years of service, so Microsoft can focus its efforts on Skype, its recent $8.5bn acquisition. No word on whether users will be able to transfer their WLM accounts to Skype. 'According to internet analysis firm Comscore, WLM still had more than double the number of Skype's instant messenger facility at the start of this year and was second only in popularity to Yahoo Messenger. But the report suggested WLM's US audience had fallen to 8.3 million unique users, representing a 48% drop year-on-year. By contrast, the number of people using Skype to instant message each other grew over the period.'"
AOL IM finally won! Good job AOL!
No. Not everyone is 12.
bloaty: Noun. A weasel word for things I don't like.
As long as they uncorporate sounds like a high-pitched cartoony UH-OH! and THWAP! into the new UI, I'm fine with it.
I still can't bring myself to kill my ICQ account. Some people collect stamps. Others collect figurines. I collect dead social networks.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
I collect dead social networks.
That answers my question why you're on slashdot.
/ducks
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
What's wrong with IRC?
Young whipper-snapper. In my day we used "talk" from the command line! We didn't need any fancy IRC doo-dads or color tags. We didn't pull any of that slap with a trout nonsense either! It was a simpler time, and we liked it!
#DeleteChrome
If that happens, you could just do what most people on ChatRoulette do....
Show 'em the DONG!
Might I suggest you use a more widely accepted currency like the US dollar, Euro or British Pound. You'll never get a good exchange rate on Dong outside Vietnam.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.