Microsoft to flick on MSN Messenger KILL SWITCH in China

  • 30 August 2014
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By Kelly Fiveash, 30 Aug 2014

Redmond silences aged IM service, touts Skype at People's Republic

 
Microsoft has put its Chinese users on notice that its MSN Messenger service will be axed at the end of October.
The software giant already confirmed it was retiring the product - latterly known as Windows Live Messenger - in other regions of the world back in late 2012.
 It said at the time that the IM service would be folded into Skype, which Redmond bought for $8.5bn in 2011.
MSN Messenger was birthed by the company in 1999, in part to compete with AOL's AIM product. At one point Microsoft claimed to have had 330 million active users on the service, but - with the arrival of Skype - the company's rejigged Windows Live Messenger that came with web conferencing capability and VoIP calls was made all but redundant.
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/30/microsoft_to_finally_turn_off_msn_messenger_in_china/

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