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    • Malintex_Terek
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      Here's your three month notice.

      Objectively, I can say that this is a negative simply because Windows Live/MSN Messenger and Skype never really competed with one another. MSN Messenger sees most of its utility as an IM client, while Skype is a video stream. They're different services, and axing one to force others to use another (the Google way!) doesn't really help Skype users out or enhance that service's experience.

      More relevant to AP, I know MSN is extensively used abroad, with most of its users coming through international spheres. I still use AIM as my primary contact service, but I've connected to almost everyone I know on AP through MSN because of its versatility.

      In the end, I'm disappointed Microsoft feels IM is obsolete technology. Chat clients like IRC are still popular around the world and stand testament to otherwise.

      lol Web 2.0

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      • No Maam
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        Google has basicaly taken one good look at Youtube's long pedigree of making sweeping, pointless, cumbersome and obtuse changes to the interface on a whim with no prior warning and then take away every good and useful feature for no apparent reason other then the itching need to replace it with something else, regardless of how compatible or practical it is, and decided to base their entiere business model on that.

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        • Monkey King
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          Fuckin' Estonians stealing our jobs.

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            Someone told me about this this morning(over msn).

            And it's still dumb.

            "As long as I'm alive, I want to die having risen just one step higher."

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            • TLC
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              MSN is awesome, why the fuck would they trash it?

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              • MetaMario
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                Huh. I've never used either.

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                • Hiroy
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                  I run both AIM and MSN on Pidgin, and use Skype.
                  …
                  So what?

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                  • FelRes
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                    That's… saddening, actually. Been using MSN/WLM for a very long time and have a lot of friends on there. It's my most used program maybe. At least we'll be able to merge our WLM account with our Skype account. RIP WLM. rose

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                    • Dryish
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                      I already quit MSN/WLM a few years ago in favour of IRC chats and Skype so I can't really say I'm terribly bummed about this. As an instant messanger, I always felt it was vastly inferior to its main competition with its awkward interface and weird money-making schemes (Yeah, let's sell people emoticons for real money. Surely they will appreciate that, no?), and almost everyone here in Finland started using IRC anyway.

                      I'm sorry for you guys who still used it frequently, but it's not like there aren't any functional alternatives. Time to try something else.

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                      • Silverblade
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                        I have never used anything else than Skype and IRC for IM since 2006.

                        And I am not sorry.

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                        • wolfwood
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                          Oh god no! First android stops using flash and now this

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                          • Mr M
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                            huh , didn't know people actually still used MSM

                            Originally Posted by Kitsune Inferno

                            You are a treasure.

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                              Man, MSN was my life back in my tweens/high school years. I think facebook chat killed it, it's too bad.

                              RIP

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                                Damn, even if I hardly use msn anymore. It does something to me to know that it's going to disapear @_@. So much memories with MSN…

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                                  Oh, so that's why that one guy I talk to said he was switching over to skype all of a sudden.
                                  That's pretty sad, I don't really care for skype and I practically grew up with msn.

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                                  • Nolus
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                                    I started with MSN and I still remember those days…. good times. Although I haven't used it in ages. Everyone here uses skype, so MSN died off already.

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                                    • gottalt3OP
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                                      I, for one, think it's good.
                                      MSN is stupid, it is riddled with publicity (like a fucking big square saying OLX.pt), and it has fallen in disuse a long time ago. And while it's main use is being an IM, it loses to Skype in that regard. You can't edit messages. It doesn't keep decent records, etc.
                                      And why would Microsoft have two programs that do the exact same thing?

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                                      • GuetaMinute
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                                        FBC and Skype killed MSN/Windows Live for me. I haven't used it since 2009. I assumed people stopped using those. I know most people I know stopped.

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                                          I stopped using MSN when all my friends stopped. I liked it, but they all converted to Facebook. But to be fair, Facebook chat has improved greatly since a couple of years ago, especially the recent update that basically makes it a cleaner version of MSN…

                                          I will miss changing my personal message every two days, and making my profile pictures weird things, and drawing contests on the MSN draw tool.....

                                          oh and (nah) I'll miss that the most.

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