Bye Windows Live Messenger

[Irn-Bru]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20222998

MS are ditching it I still use it every day pretty much, it has got worse and worse over the years of course but still, I will be sad to see it go. Back in 2004 or so when I was at school it was the in thing to be on MSN messenger.
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[P.addy]

We use this at work

[J.M.]

That couldn't have picked a worse time to turn it off!

They've just released Windows 8 which has chat built in and support for MSN. I'm using it now on a daily basis because of Windows 8 whereas before I hadn't used it in a year.
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[daemonoid]

MS own 3 chat clients - WLM, Skype and Lync. I expect all the integration features will smoothly be migrated over within windows 8.

Paddy, move over to Lync and JM, Skype. Easy, no real drama...
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[WannaBeDude]

I dont use chat things, i dont print them off, copy them or reproduce them, everyone who uses chat things are utter cunts, along with fickle book m fers. Ty.
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[J.M.]

Win 8 doesn't have Skype integration built in though. It's one of the things I actually like about Windows 8, having a client built in with support for facebook + msn. It doesn't allow me to add Skype to it.

Ah but Paddy moving the Lync and me to Skype wouldn't work so well, I talk to Paddy a lot on MSN whilst he's at work and I'm at uni

Anyway... all I was personally thinking is that Microsoft have done it at the worst time because with the release on Windows 8 I predict more people would have started using WLM again. Although I understand they want to focus on Skype for monetary reasons.

If they add Skype to the built in chat thingy on Win 8 I'll be happy.
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