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Microsoft Shutting Down MSN Messenger After 15 Years of Service

Posted by samzenpus on from the so-long-farewell dept.

New submitter airfuz writes Microsoft took a bold move announcing that users have to move away from the old version of Internet Explorer to the new version 11. And now not long after that, Microsoft announced that they are shutting down the 15-year-old MSN Messenger. Most people have moved away from the service to Facebook and other mobile based messengers such as Whatsapp, and so MSN is left with few users. But still, ending a 15-year messaging service like the MSN Messenger means something to the ones who grew up using it.

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  1. The ones who grew up using MSN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean the folks too young for AOL Instant Messenger? And the folks too young for IRC?

    1. Re:The ones who grew up using MSN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, we're the ones who had to turn the fucker off every time we got a new Windows machine.

      Snake your way through the admin console and find services and turn it off.

    2. Re:The ones who grew up using MSN? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      BAH! Back in my day we had to walk across the room to the teletype machine, barefoot, uphill both ways...

  2. I guess I'll just by Kevin108 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have to go back to using ICQ.

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    A perfect time to watch the stars.
    - Burden Brothers, "Beautiful Night"
  3. I felt a great disturbance in the Force by ssam · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out ...

    No, wait. Nobody cares.

  4. Re:Good riddance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Says the guy with the hotmail email address.

  5. Re:Uh by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Funny

    When asked about the demise of it's long-time rival, ICQ responded only with "uh oh".

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    Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.