Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL

Re:Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL by lkd on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:18PM (#7630855)

> Despite Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Messenger is still going today, a little Methuselah wandering in the Microsoft product mausoleum.

Not exactly. Messenger has been End-of-Lifed except on Windows 2000 (in all territories) and in China (on all platforms). On any other platform or territory, your login is refused and you're told to upgrade to Skype.

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Re:Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL by rpgmaker on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:37PM (#7631385)

You can still third party MSN clients and there's fix going around to make the official MSN client work again.

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Re:Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL by peterkelly on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @04:36AM (#7632853)

> there's fix going around to make the official MSN client work again

I just love the irony of this situation

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Re:Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL by darklajid on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @03:26AM (#7632637)

As rpgmaker states: You can still use the network, though.

There was a recent discussion on the FreeBSD ports mailing list about removing some msn related ports (i.e. users complaining about removing ports, exactly because of the reasons stated by rpgmaker: It still works)

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