14 DAY TRIAL // Last week, Microsoft discontinued Windows Live Messenger all over the world beside China, so the company is now fully focused on Skype, its top VoIP platform that gets updated on a regular basis.
Since it’s no longer working on Messenger improvements, the company decided to give up on its @Messenger Twitter account as well, so the company announced in a very short tweet that this handle would soon be transferred to Facebook.
“Now that messenger is part of @Skype, on Sept 30th, the @Messenger twitter account will transition @Facebook. Thank you all for your support,” the company has announced today.
Messenger will soon be discontinued in China as well, with the company recommending everyone to switch to Skype because it also comes with instant messaging options and state-of-the-art voice calling features.
The original Messenger was killed last year
Windows Live Messenger, originally known as MSN Messenger, was officially discontinued last year, when the company decided to focus exclusively on Skype and move all accounts to its VoIP platform.
While the transition was supposed to be performed smoothly, users encountered quite a lot of problems, most of which were caused by contacts and other information which wasn’t correctly transferred to Skype accounts.
Microsoft was obviously heavily criticized for this decision, especially because so many users lost their data, with a number of registered members preferring to give up on Messenger and Skype completely and switch to a different messenger.
Messenger, however, lived on for one more year in China thanks to an exception that Microsoft made only for this country, but all users here now have to move to Skype too as soon as possible.
All money on Skype
Microsoft is aggressively pushing Skype on all platforms, and at this point the application is available on a wide number of devices and operating systems, including iOS (both iPhone and iPad), Mac OS X, Windows desktop, Windows 8 Metro, BlackBerry and Android.
At the same time, Microsoft is continuously improving the client and adding new features, so the application is becoming a much more appealing choice for users seeking easy instant messaging on any of the aforementioned platforms.
Microsoft purchased Skype in 2011 and since then the company has improved the platform quite a lot, turning it from a simple application to an essential part of its strategy.
At this point, Skype is the default messaging client for Windows 8.1 and runs not only on the desktop, but also on the touch-optimized Modern UI, allowing users to perform pretty much the same tasks on both PCs and tablets.
Now that messenger is part of @Skype, on Sept 30th, the @Messenger twitter account will transition @Facebook. Thank you all for your support
— Messenger (@Messenger) September 10, 2014