Microsoft will close the messaging software MSN Messenger, or better known as Windows Live Messenger, globally on October 31, 2014, This closure will also apply in China, where MSN is still used around 300 million people.
Microsoft has provided information about this closure since Thursday last week. Users who are still using MSN asked to transfer his account to Skype, Microsoft's messaging software purchased in 2012 and valued at $ 8.5 billion. Microsoft is giving an e-mail notification to users that they will get interesting with moving services using Skype.
Microsoft's MSN launched in 1999 as a competitor to other messaging software, such as Instant Messenger and ICQ. MSN had to be at the top of popularity due to present the features of emoticons, video call, and chat games that make the experience more interesting.
More than 330 million active users each month MSN recorded. In 2005, Microsoft changed the name of MSN with Windows Live Messenger. However, concurrent with the merger of Skype to Microsoft and the emergence of mobile chat applications, user MSN always decrease. Since purchased by Microsoft, Skype users soar to 300 million by 2012, while the MSN users continues to decline.
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