Windows Live Messenger is being phased out after serving Microsoft customers for 13 years. Announced in late 2012 the service will officially come to an end on April 8 and be replaced with Skype service.
Last month Microsoft announced to some customers that the change would occur on March 15. According to the The Verge’s Tom Warren only a “small number” of Windows Live Messenger customers will flip over to Skype in March. The remaining customers will receive an “upgrade” to the Skype platform on April 8.
English-language customers will be the first to receive the upgrade followed by a transition a few weeks later for the Brazilian Portuguese version which will be completed by April 30.
Skype is attempting to make the transition simply by pre-streaming the client data to the user, so the upgrade will be already on the machine when the notification arrives.
The upgrade only applies to desktop-based Windows Live Messenger users. Microsoft has not announced plans to cut off mobile support at this time. However, API access to Windows Live Messenger eventually will be shutdown.
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