If you grew up in the late '90s or early 2000s, there's a good chance the sound of knocking on glass or a woman laughing still triggers a wave of nostalgia. MSN Messenger (officially known as Windows ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link You might think that archaic chat program MSN Messenger was dead and buried. In 2013, Microsoft announced the service would be retired and ...

The MSN Messenger outage spilled over into a seventh day Monday, with many users of the free service complaining of inaccessible accounts, despite Microsoft's claims most had been restored. MSN ...

No more winks, nudges, or shoddy modem connections cutting into your emoticon battles with your best friend (everyone did that, right?): Microsoft's MSN Messenger will officially be signing off Oct.

Hotmail and Messenger -- both free tools from Microsoft -- usually work well at what they do, namely offering easy online communications. However, sometimes the tools close or crash unexpectedly.

Microsoft launched MSN Messenger, now called Windows Live Messenger, 15 years ago, and now the company has announced that the messaging service will shut down in October. Microsoft purchased Skype a ...

It's rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The instant messaging software has been long dead, with Microsoft pulling ...

If you were a teen during the 2000s, chances are you relied on MSN Messenger to stay in touch with your friends before everyone migrated to social media platforms. MSN Messenger, which later became ...

The MSN Messenger outage spilled over into a seventh day Monday, with many users of the free service complaining of inaccessible accounts, despite Microsoft's claims that most had been restored. MSN ...

Microsoft on Thursday said that one-third of MSN Messenger customers were continuing to experience sporadic access problems and disappearing "buddy lists." However, the service appeared to go down ...

Microsoft released the final version of its MSN Messenger 6.0 instant messaging software Wednesday, touting its new animated emoticons, Webcam service and expanded device integration amid a marketing ...

Microsoft confirmed on Thursday that many MSN customers have been prevented from logging onto services such as Hotmail and MSN Messenger. The outage comes barely a week after the software giant ...