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What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? (www.techspot.com)

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The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.

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[–] parpol 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft happened.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

MSN = Microsoft Network. They didn't "happen"...they were always part of the process. MSN messenger was never anything other than a Microsoft product.

[–] parpol 7 points 18 hours ago

The reason MSN stopped being used was because Microsoft started requiring Microsoft accounts for it to work, and started pushing people towards Skype. Which is why "Microsoft happened". I never really meant to imply that Microsoft bought it or anything, just that they are the reason it eventually died.