MSN Web Messenger Closing
June 28, 2009 by Doris Kenney
Filed under Windows Live Messenger
On June 30, 2009 (yup, just a couple days away now) Microsoft has decided to put an end to MSN Web Messenger. The Web Messenger service has been around for years, and was an alternative for those who didn’t want to, or weren’t able to use the full instant messaging client. With the web-based integration of instant messaging right from the Windows Live People page in Hotmail (fondly called your “contact list”), you can now chat right from Hotmail.
Just sign into Hotmail, and you should see the familiar Messenger Icon towards the upper right hand side of the screen. Click on the drop down box to see the sign in options (shown above). For those, like myself who don’t use a Hotmail address for authentication, you do have access your contacts from your Windows Live People page with no problem whatsoever.
While it works great in IE and Firefox, I tried it on two different machines using Google Chrome and the Messenger option simply does not appear. On a fresh install of Chrome, after logging into my Live ID, I was prompted some pages might not display properly with the browser I was using So if you are a Google Chrome fan (like me) you may not be quite as impressed with this change.
Bottom line? MSN Web Messenger will be gone on Tuesday. If you want to access WLM on the web you’ll need to use the new Hotmail (or Live profile) option, or use a web based client such as Meebo or eBuddy.
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Thanks for the heads up, Doris! I never really used it, but it’s good to know. Interesting that they are eliminating it, even though there is a replacement of sorts.
I guess every time they can force you to your Live profile that’s one more chance you’ll try to integrate everything into one place for the sake of simplicity. I didn’t use it much, but there was a time or 2 it came in handy. I don’t really care for the clutter of the “People” page but at least it’s still accessible in one form or another.
This move makes sense to me for Microsoft, but they’re still not doing enough to pull me away from my google mail and messenger (and chrome for that matter).
Fu*k you again Microsoft! What bullsh*t is this that Web Messenger is no longer in service & replaced by this crap http://tinyurl.com/ncjhmh
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I used this alot – and it stopped me from getting spyware from an installed version of the software..
the new version is bad..all it does it show a contact list and send a pm…(it doesnt show you the whole list of the conversation)
epic fail