Official: Microsoft will cancel the Messenger for Skype

Microsoft has announced that it will cancel soon the messenger and will allow the user to continue to communicate through Skype software
The rumors were true. After a few days ago reported that Microsoft documents to cancel its messenger and to unite it with Skype software is purchased, the company announced that it plans to formally. Microsoft announced that Messenger will be canceled in the first quarter of 2013 throughout the world except China, and accounts over a hundred million Skype users will be transferred to his name, will join 280 million existing accounts of the service.
When will the change have Messenger users download the latest version of Skype. They can make a connection with the operation of their messenger details (which are actually private "Microsoft account their") - and from that moment it will Skype contacts Messenger account. This is possible in fact right now, but there is no obligation - as messenger will continue to be active in the coming months.


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"We will work with you in the coming months to help make the transition and to provide information and help along the way. By updating Skype users can Messenger to send personal messages and make video calls with members of the Messenger theirs. Feed will provide you with support for a wide range of devices and platforms, video calls from mobile phones, video calls with my Facebook group video calls, "the official Microsoft in its announcement.
During this sacrifice Microsoft Messenger - who has a consistent decline in recent years the number of its users for boost to Skype - software it bought worth a total of $ 8.5 billion and which is betting. Skype will become main program calls nature is audio / video over the network to one where there is also an emphasis on text calls - a feature that already exists on Skype, but not considered central to it.