Last year Microsoft announced the cessation of its Windows Live Messenger and migrating all users to the instant messaging application Skype. However, there was still a last bulwark that kept this classic messenger service. China
Unfortunately, today reported the final closing of the application in China, which will be made for the next 31 October.
The decision not to remove the Messenger of China, in the first place was because Skype was greatly surpassed by WeChat, a local operator, and Microsoft did not want to risk losing more market share.
The classic messenger service was created in 1999, but it was not until 2007 that became known as Windows Live Messenger. However, after the emergence of applications such as Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, he began to lose much market.
According to the website TechNode, to make the Chinese public migrating to Skype, Microsoft has promised to offer a coupon $ 2 for making calls in the application.
in October and Windows Messenger completely disappear, this will be the final farewell
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