Microsoft is scrapping its instant-messaging program and forcing most users to switch to Skype. Maintaining Windows Live Messenger made less sense after Microsoft Corp. bought Skype for $8.5 billion ...

In a week, on April 8, Microsoft is set to begin moving the tens of millions of users still on its desktop version of its Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging service to Skype IM. Microsoft will ...

A select group of testers next week will get an early look at MSN Messenger 7.0, the next version of Microsoft Corp.’s popular instant messaging client. The software will be made available to selected ...

Microsoft issued a security alert after discovering a weak spot in its popular MSN Messenger service that could be exploited by hackers. The alert, issued Wednesday, said that the vulnerability ...

Microsoft is giving its popular Messenger service the chop, in an effort to move everyone onto video-calling service Skype. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ presenter of Adventures ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Skype video call and messaging service will be shut down in May, 14 years after replacing the Windows Live Messenger. A reader contacted BleepingComputer, and shared ...