{"id":72352,"date":"2014-09-05T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=72352"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:29:38","slug":"the-softonic-minute-messenger-whatsapp-advanced-warfare-and-minecraft-1-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-softonic-minute-messenger-whatsapp-advanced-warfare-and-minecraft-1-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Softonic Minute: Messenger, WhatsApp, Advanced Warfare and Minecraft 1.8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook Messenger<\/strong> <\/a>says its final goodbye, WhatsApp<\/strong> <\/a>will get voice calls, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare<\/strong> shows 7 minutes of multiplayer, and Minecraft 1.8<\/strong> is finally released. Check out this week’s hottest software news in The Softonic Minute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Messenger will cease to exist by the end of October<\/a><\/h3>\n

Microsoft’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. Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n

Rumor: WhatsApp voice calling feature coming soon<\/a><\/h3>\n

The latest WhatsApp<\/a> rumors claim that the app is preparing to roll out a voice calling feature<\/strong> to compete with messaging apps that already provide the feature. Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch 7 minutes of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare gameplay<\/a><\/h3>\n

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is out on Nov 4th, and Activision has released a seven minute video explaining all the changes and new features<\/strong> in the multiplayer part of the first person shooter. Watch the video.<\/a><\/p>\n

Minecraft 1.8, The Bountiful Update, is out now<\/a><\/h3>\n

The latest major update to Mojang<\/a>‘s massive creative survival game Minecraft<\/a> is now available. We’re now at Minecraft 1.8, ‘The Bountiful Update<\/strong>‘, so called because of the many changes and items it introduces to the game.\u00a0Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n

Make sure to check out all of our past Softonic Minutes<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Facebook Messenger says its final goodbye, WhatsApp will get voice calls, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare shows 7 minutes of multiplayer, and Minecraft 1.8 is finally released. Check out this week’s hottest software news in The Softonic Minute. Default player Messenger will cease to exist by the end of October Microsoft’s popular MSN Messenger, aka … Continue reading “The Softonic Minute: Messenger, WhatsApp, Advanced Warfare and Minecraft 1.8”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":72356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2445],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-72352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook-messenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72352","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\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330211,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72352\/revisions\/330211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72352"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=72352"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=72352"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=72352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}