Microsoft ditches Windows Live Messenger for Skype

Why not have a separate service to sign into,
>sign in with calling
(current skype)
OR
>sign in w/o
(MSN like)

Man thats really sad.... I really like MSN! ):

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Originally Posted by ChewBecca

Been talking to a few friends and aparently they are going to transfer all accounts over to skype. Not sure how they are going to do it, as skype uses a username, and msn uses an email, but hey. So long as I have all my contacts.

Also, aparently they are going to impliment msn into skype over time. So its pretty much going to turn into msn anyway.

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They already have... O.o


What's going to happen with my MSN bot??? It'll be useless. :(

heres the plan. RageMSN.

We host our own msn private server.

(c)

Skype aint that bad. I always had difficulties adding contacts on MSN but it was less buggy on Skype.

Skype's file transfer is horrible though, we dont get to preview pictures sent but have to download it and view it manually instead.

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Originally Posted by Darksta

heres the plan. RageMSN.

We host our own msn private server.

(c)

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I vote yes.

I only use skype for people I know in real life, which is not very many QQ

WTF? I don't even use motherfucking Skype,I use WLM as my only IM >.<

I haven't used WLM in nrly 4 years as everyone I really spoke if disappeared or was just too busy. Eventually I stopped using it and having recently logged in for old time sakes only 1 person was online and I didn't even know them. XD

Anyways Skype isn't that bad, I use it a lot to keep in touch with family and close friends. I use it only on my phone though so easy to keep in contact with. Anybody who knows me is welcome to have it, just PM. ^^

So when are they actually ditching it? Idm tbh, I prefer Skype. Easier to use for things such as groups, calls etc.

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Originally Posted by Slurp

So when are they actually ditching it? Idm tbh, I prefer Skype. Easier to use for things such as groups, calls etc.

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They're expected to ditch it in March of 2013.

I like Google Talk as a plain IM program. MSN I only keep because of Ragezone, and at that I am usually online invisible if the damn program works at all. I don't want to be forced into a video chat program with crappy IM capabilities. I guess we'll see what happens.

I wonder why several of you have mentioned that you don't like Skype because you don't like the (video-)calling, however this has been an option in WLM for a very long time. While I definitely think Skype needs to be improved in the chat department, being against it because of the (video-)calling makes no sense.

Google Talk is decent, the major problem is that Google are being arrogant asses in the dumb way (MS is being arrogant here but it will probably work out for the better for them), because Google refuses to create a decent app for iOS, Windows Phone etc, they have no chance to become big on smartphones, MS is now finally doing this (they should have done that ages ago) by making Skype big, this will make it that it can become the biggest messaging and (video-)calling service on PC's and mobile devices.