So the MSN messenger is finally dead. Is that really so bad?

[Playful Pony]

I adored MSN, especially because it had easily the best image sharing for any IM ever! It was so simple to use, so quick, so easy and practical... Other than that I guess you can't say MSN going was a big loss to me, not anymore... None of my friends used MSN, they had all migrated to Facebook (I don't use most facebook features, and the IM there is terrible!). It was me and one other person, only a single induvidual was ever online on my MSN friends list. We talked regularily of course, but it became kinda pointless starting up MSN to talk with only one friend.

It was when the huge delays hit MSN that I left. Suddenly it would take as much as a whole hour before my message reached my one friend, and equally long in the other direction. We started using Skype in December last year, but I'm still not used to and comfortable with it. It's not a particularily good IM in my opinion, and I certainly do miss MSN because it had a lot of features that I loved, features that are not available on Facebook or Skype, which is what people are using these days...

I guess I am a bit sad still, but the sadness has kinda passed. It seems weird to be nostalgic about some piece of software, but I really am! And I am disapointed and kind of annoyed that all of my friends "betrayed" MSN in favour of Facebook, only now complaining and mourning it's passing. If they really liked MSN so much, why didn't they stay on it damnit! They killed MSN! I can never forgive!

But seriously, the only thing I'm really annoyed about it losing that fantastic image sharing solution. I want that in my Skype, and I don't understand why it's not there yet!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I always preferred Skype to MSN so no loss for me. Still, I can see how others might not be as indifferent as me.

 

[Strazdas]

Why would you be angry or conflicted about something you never use and know you'll probably never use from this day forward? I mean yeah, it's always sad when a service disappears, but nothing lasts forever and all it's doing is losing Microsoft money. I'm sure many people were sad when the telegraph system vanished too, but keeping it around would have been ridiculous and pointless.

Nostalgia. Just pretty much They changed it, now it sucks (warning, Tvtropes) [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItSucks]. I wrote a book because a person on MSN inspired me.
Thing is, the MSN the way it was back in 2006, is still unmached by Skype. so the telegraph comaprison isnt really fitting. when MS bouht MSN and turned it into windows live messenger it got worse each iteration.

and that it now had an option to merge the account which to everyone looked to be the slow funeral march for the IM service.

Not on the Lite version though, which means my account is lost forever.

as it's only the client that's been killed, MSN servers will still work for at least a year.

Oh, nice, ill go sign it on in Miranda.

 

[IamQ]

Last time I used msn was in 2010. Before that I think '04-'05

 

[Rattja]

Oh so it is not just me then!
I have had MSN running since my first computer, and now... it's gone =(
That last update kinda broke my heart, even though I mostly used it to see when I got mail, or talk to the two other friends of mine that still had it.

It has just been there forever, it was where everyone were back in the day. The fun we had with MSN+, the nicknames (why the hell remove that!?), the nudge glitches, the emoitcons.
People forgot about it, and laughed when I said I still used it, but I won't forget it, oh MSN, you will be missed.

RIP MSN.

 

[Xarathox]

Eh, I haven't logged into MSN messenger in over a year. I got with the times and bought a smart phone. It does instant messaging just as good and I can do it anywhere.