As announced last November, Microsoft has been planning to discontinue Windows Live Messenger in 2013, moving all users over to Skype sometime in Q1 of this year. Today, Microsoft emailed all 100 ...

Microsoft this week will introduce a test version of Windows XP that significantly boosts the abilities of its instant-messaging software to provide text, chat, video, audio and telephony services.

Released earlier this week, the exploit code - which has been crafted to run not only on attackers' Windows machines, but also on Linux and Unix boxes -crashes Windows systems not patched against a ...

COMMENTARY-- Two articles recently published on ZDNet by Patrick Houston and Joe Wilcox show that both writers believe that instant messaging--by way of Windows Messenger--is the next "killer app". If ...

Attention fans of Windows Live Messenger (née MSN Messenger), Microsoft is shutting the service down for good March 15, 2013. The company sent out an email this week informing Windows Live Messenger ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft seems to be taking its Skype acquisition and integrating it further into the arsenal of ...

Microsoft has officially confirmed that the company will discontinue Windows Live Messenger in 2013, moving all users over to Skype in Q1. This move will include migrating Messenger’s 100 million ...

Facebook has posted details of its universal Windows 10 Messenger app on Microsoft's Windows Store, but the beta isn't yet available to download. The new Messenger app popped up in Microsoft's Store ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft Corp. is expected to make available to testers ...

Today Microsoft announced that its Messenger service will be discontinued in the first quarter of 2013. Part of that move is the integration of Messenger’s 100 million+ users – that figure confirmed ...

Beta expected soon for Windows Live Messenger, an update that takes the IM program into new areas, including Net telephony. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats several times, ...

Microsoft has started notifying users of it Windows Messenger Live that the service will be shut down on March 15. Messenger users will be asked to use Skype, which has released a version that allows ...