> 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.
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)
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.