industry sources claim Microsoft may phase out Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype, with an announcement to come as early as this week, the Verge reports.
Microsoft has not yet confirmed or denied the change, but an official announcement is expected to be released anytime, possibly as early as the first few weeks of November 2012. It is believed that the change made a lot of sense because, for months, Microsoft have been retiring the entire Windows Live brand.
According the Verge, over the past few months, Microsoft has gradually been moving users over to the Messenger backend for Skype, and approximately 80 percent of all instant messages sent via Skype were being handled by Windows Live Messenger.
The MSN Messenger was first launched as in mid-1999, and hit its peak a decade later with more than 330 million active users chatting away on it each month.The recently released Skype 6.0 update for Windows and Mac introduced the ability to link user names with either Facebook or a Microsoft account, which includes Windows Live Messenger users.
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