MESSENGER GO TO BOARD, ON 31 OCTOBER WILL BE OFF EVEN IN CHINA

It’s the end of an era for Microsoft, which will close on October 31 definitely the popular instant messaging service Windows Live Messenger (MSN). Since last year, Microsoft has begun to phase out MSN in many nations and China is still the country with the largest number of active users, this will be the last country in which the service will be “off”.

Live Messenger is one of the longest-running services Instant messaging: it was launched back in 1999 as a competitor to AOL and thanks to the gradual introduction of additional features (such as custom emoticons, games ..) has acquired over the years millions of users.

With an e-mail to your Microsoft suggests users to switch to a more modern VoIP service Skype (acquired in October 2011 for $ 8.5 billion), offering as an incentive a credit of two dollars for all those who make the switch.

The introduction of new instant messaging services like WhatsApp, Viber, Tango, and We Chat Line (the latter two especially popular in China) have marked the final collapse of Windows Live Messenger, which had already been affected by the introduction of the most popular social networking.