Microsoft announced a couple of weeks ago that they were “retiring” the Windows Live Messenger program, and encouraging users to migrate to Skype which Microsoft bought in May of 2011 for $8.5 billion. This week Microsoft sent out the following email to Windows Live Messenger users encouraging them to move to Skype before the shutdown of Windows Live Messenger. However, there is a catch not everyone had realized. On March 15, what Microsoft is retiring is the Windows Live Messenger program, NOT the Messenger Service Read more
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