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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is making changes to its MSN instant messaging service that will lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft’s own Messenger ...

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 ...

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.

Earlier this week came widespread reports that Microsoft would be retiring its widely used Messenger service on March 15th, forcing all users (apart from those in China) to switch to using Skype for ...

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 ...

Windows Live Messenger was introduced for iOS in 2010 but has since been discontinued. Messenger was a chat client that businesses could use to stay in contact with employees, clients and other ...

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 ...

Microsoft will force an upgrade on users of its Windows Live Messenger instant messaging software in September to plug a hole the company introduced when a programmer added an extra character to a ...

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, ...

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 ...