MSN Messenger

[bedouin]

So what's the deal with this thing?  They delayed its closure once, and now days after its official closure, I'm still connected.  I have a funny feeling their strategy to migrate everyone to Skype will backfire, and many will just say fuck it, why do I need an IM program anyway when I have a smartphone? 

[Refalm]

They will close the 3rd party apps next year, but the official MSN Messenger will stop working now.

I don't know anyone who uses it anyway, everyone is using WhatsApp or Facebook.

[bedouin]

Strange that they're being nice about it.

[Refalm]

It's because some businesses use MSN Messenger to chat to other companies, since it has Lync integration.

Lync users will be migrated to Skype integration for out-of-company chat next year.

[bedouin]

They pushed out a Messenger update through Office for Mac's updater yesterday, and it's still on the Messenger network.  Confusing.

[Refalm]

Microsoft announced that they would herass MSN Messenger users this month into switching to Skype.

I'm guessing that's what the update is about )