Comments on: The death of MSN Messenger!

By: JL

JL — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:02:54 +0000

Yes, I agree that MSN is on its way out, regardless of how many bells and whistles it's bloated with. I think the protocol might survive a little longer. Over time I think there'd be a trend of shifting towards Gabber based chat clients now that Google's jumped on board. I've used GAIM before and I like it, though personally I prefer the simplicity of Miranda for my chat client. The only thing I'm not quite sure if GAIM or Miranda have pulled off is support for voice chat since I almost never use it anyway. I still have people I chat to on ICQ and MSN, though not as much as I used to.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:54:15 +0000

is google voice chat free?

By: Chaar~Max

Chaar~Max — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 03:48:12 +0000

Hey, ofcourse I remember ICQ. I even remember my sign-in name. Why? Coz that's where I met my GF. Yup, online love as you would call it. 5 years now.. Sad to see ICQ dying... As for MSN, another point being only a percentage use the Messenger to chat. For eg: I use GAIM to log into MSN. I'm sure many of the people avoid the bulky, sloppy messenger and use alternate clients.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:26:26 +0000

Agree. MSN is the worst chat application. There is so much space to improve and I can’t understand why Microsoft has all the money in the world but can’t get the chat client correct. But it is not dieing. All my business contacts are in MSN messenger and still my msn contact list grows.
Yahoo messenger other hand stay steady and stable for long time popular among every group. ICQ died because AOL killed it.

By: E-Commerce News » Blog Archive » Is MSN Messenger Dying?

E-Commerce News » Blog Archive » Is MSN Messenger Dying? — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:09:45 +0000

[...] I just came across a very interesting post by a fellow blogger Yusuf Asgerally who argues that MSN Messenger may very well be dying out, to be replaced with video-rich IM systems such as Yahoo and the more light-weight clients such as Google Talk. The client became bulky, slow, crashed often enough (at least for me and for people I know who uses it). As more and more features were added it just got bigger and bigger. MSN messenger live, (the big release with offline messaging capability); BIG DEAL, yahoo and ICQ have had offline messaging for donkeys ages. Then again there is the actual coding, pretty sloppy on the part of MSN Live coders. [...]

By: George

George — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:08:11 +0000

Hi Yusuf,

First time visitor here and I just wanted to say that I agree with your point regarding MSN slowly but surely dying out. Just about the only thing stopping me from scrapping it completely in favour of Skype or Gmail is the fact that a lot of my friends don’t use either for those, and it’d be silly to lose my MSN contacts just for the sake of being able to chat in Skype. However, it is implicit from this statement that it is just a matter of time before the two become more prolific and therefore overtake MSN.

A very nice and insightful post!

George