Countdown clock: Microsoft marches toward its Messenger phase-out

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A reminder for those using the desktop version of Windows Live Messenger: On April 8, Microsoft will begin moving the tens of millions of users of its consumer instant-messaging service to Skype.

Microsoft will begin its worldwide phase-out of the desktop version of Messenger, starting with those in English-speaking countries, and ending with Portuguese. The entire "retirement" should be completed by April 30 or so, officials have said. (Skype officials are not providing a timetable as to when Microsoft plans to retire Messenger on mobile, Windows 8, Windows RT and/or multivendor platforms.)

Microsoft's Skype team has been prompting repeatedly via e-mail those who have not already proactively moved off Messenger about the impending phase-out.

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[Joan Archer]

I get the emails, I've already got the latest Skype, had an account there for a few years, also got Messenger with a Hotmail account had that quite some time as well.

 

[boohbah]

have you merged your hotmail messenger and skype yet joan, means you have all your contacts in one place.
when live messenger dissapears on the 8th.