{"id":15847,"date":"2022-06-25T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alistar.net\/?p=15847"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:56:47","slug":"with-the-end-of-msn-messenger-skype-and-lync-are-taking-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alistar.net\/en\/blog\/het-einde-van-msn-messenger-skype-en-lync-nemen-de-fakkel-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of MSN Messenger. Skype and Lync Are Taking Over!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue the Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) service on March 15. Microsoft had already announced in early November that it would be discontinuing Messenger. The service has since been fully integrated into the latest version of Skype. Anyone who installs the new desktop or Windows 8 version of Skype and enters their Microsoft account will automatically see all their existing Messenger contacts and be able to start chatting with them right away. Starting March 15, existing, older Messenger programs will no longer work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft released the Lync 2013 application for the new operating system at the same time as Windows 8. Previously, Lync was known as Office Communications. This software is, in a sense, a business version of Microsoft\u2019s own Windows Live Messenger. Users can share statuses and chat via text, audio, and video using Lync. Microsoft primarily targets professional use with this program. At Alistar, you can turn to us for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alistar.net\/en\/contact\/\">your questions<\/a>\u00a0about the capabilities of Lync and Lync Server.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft heeft aangegeven op 15 maart te gaan stoppen met de Windows Live Messenger (voorheen MSN Messenger) dienst. Begin november maakte Microsoft al bekend met Messenger te gaan stoppen. Inmiddels is de dienst geheel ge\u00efntegreerd in de nieuwste versie van Skype. Wie de nieuwe desktop of Windows 8 versie van Skype installeert en daar z\u2019n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"industrie-type":[],"interesses":[],"techologie":[],"alistar_language":[],"class_list":["post-15847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-nl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Het einde van MSN Messenger. Skype en Lync nemen de fakkel over! - Alistar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Microsoft stopt op 15 maart met Windows Live Messenger; de dienst is ge\u00efntegreerd in Skype. 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