Death Of MSN - Good Or Bad?

MSN has proven a popular source for tens of millions of users. However, since microsoft has got a few different ways of messaging already, their next step was to unify their users in to one space that did all the things that MSN (their best IM service at the time) and more.

Things such as:

• Private group messaging
• Improved webcam and voice chat
• File sharing

They needed something that does all this but better. Skype had all these things and did it better than MSN. So, Microsoft bought Skype for £5.3 billion

MSN had 100 million users whereas Skype had 280million just before November 2012, so with Skype proving themselves more popular than MSN it is a very good business move to colaborate with Skype.

 If you used Skype before Microsoft bought them, then you should notice small changes have been made to Skype such as:

1. Windows Live accounts (MSN login) are now compatible with Skype.
2. Ads will start to appear in your calls.
3. New tools for internal corporate communications.
4. Different look. With Windows 8 being released with it's clean orderly looking box-grid-square-rectangle layout they have applied this theme to Skype. The layout is stays exactly the same but with a Windows 8 hint. For example, rather than curving the edges of a rectangle button and maybe shade it to give it more depth and easier on the eye, it becomes a basic simplistic rectagle with sharp vertecies and one colour all over, some people like it and some poeple don't.

However the iPhone and android application has not changed what so ever. It freezes all the time and you can't join a conference call because the button doens't exist in the app but it does on the PC version.