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    Microsoft Messenger service - Wikipedia

    Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger Service, .NET Messenger Service and Windows Live Messenger Service) was an instant messaging and presence system developed by Microsoft in 1999 for use with its MSN Messenger software. It was used by instant messaging clients including Windows 8, Windows Live … See more

    Background

    Despite multiple name changes to the service and its client software over the years, the Messenger service is often referred to colloquially as "MSN", due to the history of MSN Messenger. The service itself was … See more

    See also

    • Microsoft Notification Protocol
    • Comparison of instant messaging protocols See more

    External links

    • MSN Messenger protocol documentation
    • MSNPiki (protocol wiki)
    • Skype replaces Microsoft Messenger for online calls See more

    Software

    Official clients
    Microsoft offered the following instant messaging clients that connected to the Messenger service:
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    Criticism

    Microsoft Messenger has been criticized for the use of the Microsoft Notification Protocol, which does not provide any encryption. This makes wiretapping personal … See more

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    What is MSN Messenger?
    Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger Service, .NET Messenger Service and Windows Live Messenger Service) was an instant messaging and presence system developed by Microsoft in 1999 for use with its MSN Messenger software.

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    When did Windows Live Messenger become a service?
    Because the main client used to access the service became known as Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft started referring to the entire service as the Windows Live Messenger Service in its support documentation in the mid-2000s.

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    When was Windows Live Messenger renamed MSN Messenger?
    Before the product was renamed Windows Live Messenger, it was named "MSN Messenger" from 1999 to 2006. During that time, Microsoft released seven major versions as follows. The first version of MSN Messenger Service, version 1.0 (1.0.0863), was released July 22, 1999.

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    When did Windows Messenger come out?
    It was upgraded several times when it was made available for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Since then, its development stopped. It was superseded by Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Lync. Windows Messenger was introduced in Windows XP on October 22, 2001.

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