Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?
parpol@programming.dev 10 months agoThe reason MSN stopped being used was because Microsoft started requiring Microsoft accounts for it to work, and started pushing people towards Skype. Which is why “Microsoft happened”. I never really meant to imply that Microsoft bought it or anything, just that they are the reason it eventually died.
yamanii@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought it always required a microsoft e-mail? It’s why most millenials had a hotmail before gmail was a thing.
parpol@programming.dev 9 months ago
Yeah, but those Hotmail accounts were lightweight and simple. They weren’t connected to a Microsoft metaverse of spyware like they are now. I had 3 of these Hotmail accounts but at some point I got locked out of all of them for not providing Microsoft with my phone number. That’s how I personally stopped using MSN.