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Re:The Last Message Sent on AIM by ocdtrekkie on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:22AM (#26302991)
On the contrary, social media and messaging platforms live on trend popularity alone. Features or bulk accounts ever created are mostly meaningless. MySpace stopped mattering once everyone moved to Facebook. These aren't driven by technology, they're driven solely by popularity.

Once people move on, you might as well shut it down.

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Re:The Last Message Sent on AIM by after_care on Monday March 01, 2021 @09:36AM (#26303110)
Microsoft rebranded MSN to Lync, Skype and finally to Teams.

AIM could have rebranded with the right product team behind it.

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Re:The Last Message Sent on AIM by ocdtrekkie on Monday March 01, 2021 @10:50AM (#26303926)
And lost users every time. Also, you've merged a lot of unrelated products.

MSN was folded into Skype after they bought Skype, a separate company. Lync, a corporate offering with no commonality with MSN, got rebranded Skype for Business, despite no actual relation or compatibility with Skype. Teams has nothing in common with either of the previously described product lines, though Microsoft is going to sunset SfB and push everyone over to Teams, given the success of that product.

Renaming Lync as Skype for Business is actually the only "rebrand" Microsoft did here, and it did nothing to actually increase adoption of that platform, considering Microsoft chose to dump it less than five years later.

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