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by lkd 4434 days ago
> Despite Microsoft’s purchase of Skype, Messenger is still going today, a little Methuselah wandering in the Microsoft product mausoleum.

Not exactly. Messenger has been End-of-Lifed except on Windows 2000 (in all territories) and in China (on all platforms). On any other platform or territory, your login is refused and you're told to upgrade to Skype.
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rpgmaker 4434 days ago
You can still third party MSN clients and there's fix going around to make the official MSN client work again.
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peterkelly 4433 days ago
> there's fix going around to make the official MSN client work again

I just love the irony of this situation

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darklajid 4433 days ago
As rpgmaker states: You can still use the network, though.

There was a recent discussion on the FreeBSD ports mailing list about removing some msn related ports (i.e. users complaining about removing ports, exactly because of the reasons stated by rpgmaker: It still works)

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