Microsoft is killing messenger

[Antonio Linares]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/messenger/home

I admit that skype is an evolution, but does it make sense to remove such a popular app like the messenger... ?

It shocked me when I saw this trying to download messenger... (because I wanted messenger, not skype).

[Richard Chidiak]

Antonio

Messenger is not needed anymore with Skype. You can do messenging with skype, message, voice, video. Other interesting feature it works on all platforms. Windows, Android (phones), Apple (iphone). At last 1 universal program that runs on any system. No more need for whatsapp, viber ... etc Skype replaces them all.

Richard

[Antonio Linares]

Dear Richard,

Theoretically sounds fine, but in practice the situation is quite different. People like to use what they are used to, and Messenger is a total winner. A standard used by millions (?) users.

In example, from Computer Associates point of view everybody had to drop Clipper and use Visual Objects. See what we use now

IMO, in those forced changes imposed by companies, users do consider to migrate to different tools that not always are the expected ones.