{"id":71963,"date":"2014-08-29T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=71963"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:30:36","slug":"msn-messenger-will-cease-to-exist-by-the-end-of-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/msn-messenger-will-cease-to-exist-by-the-end-of-october\/","title":{"rendered":"MSN Messenger will cease to exist by the end of October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s popular <strong>MSN Messenger<\/strong>, aka Windows Live Messenger, will finally die a complete death on <strong>October 31st<\/strong>. The service <a title=\"Migration from Windows Live Messenger to Skype begins today\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/migration-from-windows-live-messenger-to-skype-begins-today\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has been discontinued<\/a> for a majority of the world, but was <strong>kept alive in China<\/strong> due to its popularity. The fifteen year old messaging service will finally be gone forever in favor of <a title=\"Skype for Windows review\" href=\"http:\/\/skype.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MSN Messenger was created in 1999 to fight against AOL&#8217;s massively popular <a title=\"AOL AIM messenger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AIM<\/a> messaging service, which still exists. As the internet grew and mobile phones became the norm, the desktop focus of MSN Messenger failed to compete with apps like <a title=\"Facebook Messenger for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger<\/a> and <a title=\"Google Hangouts for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/hangouts.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Hangouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many users <a title=\"Skype is replacing Windows Live Messenger\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/skype-is-replacing-windows-live-messenger\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">loathed<\/a> the transition to Skype because of the app&#8217;s focus on video calling. Microsoft has <strong>overhauled Skype<\/strong> over the last year to accommodate instant messaging users. The company recently fixed an annoying <a title=\"Skype finally fixes duplicate notifications\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/skype-finally-fixes-duplicate-notifications\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">duplicate notification bug<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"TechNode\" href=\"http:\/\/technode.com\/2014\/08\/29\/microsoft-messenger-shut-down-in-mainland-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TechNode<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Via: <a title=\"The Verge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/8\/29\/6082199\/msn-messenger-shutting-down-15-years-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"The gamer's kit: improve the performance of your PC\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/the-gamers-kit-improve-the-performance-of-your-pc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The gamer&#8217;s kit: improve the performance of your PC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo editor Pixlr for desktop launched\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/photo-editor-pixlr-for-desktop-launched\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo editor Pixlr for desktop launched<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple event confirmed for September 9th, iOS 8 coming soon\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-event-confirmed-for-september-9th-ios-8-coming-soon\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple event confirmed for September 9th, iOS 8 coming soon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chrome experiments with user accounts and guest mode\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-experiments-with-user-accounts-and-guest-mode\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome experiments with user accounts and guest mode<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s popular MSN Messenger, aka Windows Live Messenger, will finally die a complete death on October 31st. The service has been discontinued for a majority of the world, but was kept alive in China due to its popularity. The fifteen year old messaging service will finally be gone forever in favor of Skype. MSN Messenger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/msn-messenger-will-cease-to-exist-by-the-end-of-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MSN Messenger will cease to exist by the end of October&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":71967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2842],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-71963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmsn-messenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330250,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71963\/revisions\/330250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71963"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=71963"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=71963"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=71963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}