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December 1st, 2012, 14:27 GMT · By

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Microsoft’s WLM Retirement Kills Yahoo Messenger Features

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Yahoo has just announced that several Yahoo Messenger features would be discontinued next month, some of them because of Microsoft’s WLM retirement.

The Redmond-based software giant will shut down Windows Live Messenger in early 2013, as it plans to move all users to Skype and its built-in Messenger.

As of December 14, however, Yahoo Messenger will no longer work with Windows Live Messenger. YM users will continue to see WLM contacts online, but they won’t be able to chat. In addition, Yahoo Messenger Public Chat Rooms will close down on the same date, while the Pingbox feature will be taken offline.

Microsoft’s decision to retire Windows Live Messenger is clearly hurting Yahoo, but it’s pretty obvious that Yahoo Messenger is quickly losing ground in the war against other instant messengers.

Voice calls would remain available between YM users, but Phone In and Phone Out features would be discontinued, as Yahoo seems to lose the battle with Skype.

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Comment #1 by: guickiman on 02 Dec 2012, 18:02 UTC reply to this comment

the idiots at Yahoo should have sold out to Microsoft when they had the chance..Now the greedy jerks are going to be put into bankruptcy Watch this happen soon


Comment #2 by: jerry manders on 03 Dec 2012, 00:00 UTC reply to this comment

I've used Yahoo chatrooms for over 10 years. This is upsetting news..


Comment #3 by: Paul on 03 Dec 2012, 15:53 UTC reply to this comment

Good riddance! They wouldn't support Linux users, so no love lost here.
Yahoo Messenger was the last program keeping my friends and me tied to Windows... after a suitable replacement was found, we ditched the crap from Redmond.
All happy now.
;-)


Comment #4 by: disappointed on 03 Jan 2013, 07:05 UTC reply to this comment

YM is by far better than WLM... WLM keeps asking me to install skype, meanwhile they don't fix the gazillion bugs they have. not interested.
They should try to emulate some of yahoo's best features.


Comment #5 by: null on 25 Mar 2013, 22:20 UTC reply to this comment

Rumor has it that yahoo messenger will also shut down shortly after the chatrooms go come December. It's had a good run, don't get me wrong, I like yahoo.. but it's really got no place anymore. I think the last IMs out there are ICQ (quickly regaining popularity in Russia and Northern US and Canada) and IRC-ToGo.

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