On the 8th April, MSN Messenger will die an ignominious death as Microsoft boots everyone over to Skype. But the magic of sending people little snippets of text accompained by oh-so-funny emoticons won't die with it -- there's a whole bevy of services just waiting in the wings. Read More >>
Featured comment by hyperspacey:
"Ah, Yahoo Messenger. Older than God but I still keep it around because I have about two people who occasionally get in touch with me on it. Though sin..." More »
You only have nine more weeks to glory in the history of Microsoft's chat tool, with the company announcing plans to entirely kill off Messenger by March 15th. You'll have to have switched over to Skype by then if you want to carry on chatting with your old MSN buddies, or living in China -- where the service will live on. [Forbes] Read More >>
Featured comment by markhimself:
"just to think that children these days will be hearing about ancient artifacts like Woolworths and MySpace, but also Hotmail and MSN Messenger..." More »
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