This move is to prevent the conflict of interest between Skype and MSN Live Messenger. And after all, Skype will surely brings in more revenues with users using cash to buy credits to make calls. MSN Messenger has been with us for a very very long time. It has stands all test and trials of competition, competing against chat room like irq and other instant messaging services like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger and Skype.
However, all good things must come to an end. And the time has comes for this wonderful companion which has been one of the essential software since 1999.
I'm sure we'll miss MSN very much but the grief shall not be long as there's already facebook chat and google talk eagerly taking its place in no time. But then, I'll be quite sure many corporates IT heads are having headache on which to use for their instant communicating tools after this. For I'm one of them.
More details in BBC
Cheers,
Andy MH Ooi
