So you loved Windows Live Messenger and hate Skype?
Thursday, April 25, 2013 by LightStar | Discussion: Personal Computing
For those of you who were forced to change over to the inferior messenger product called Skype, here is a way to get Windows Live Messenger back, and it works absolutely great! 
It says it will keep Live working for at least a year... but by then maybe Microsoft will come to their senses.
Reply #2 Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:48 PM
If Skype had better longing and handled online messaging better, i.e. both people do not have to be online in order for a message to be sent, I would say it's a superior platform to MSN. That being said, there is only 1-2 people that I even talked to on MSN, and that is infrequently at best, versus my constant usage of Skype. Can't say I'm personally bummed over this as a result.
Reply #3 Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:53 PM
Someone fix Yahoo Messenger and I'll go back to it.
Reply #6 Friday, April 26, 2013 2:55 PM
I still have messenger installed and have yet to be forced to install skype. 
Reply #8 Friday, April 26, 2013 3:37 PM
I still have skype installed and have yet to be forced to install messenger. 
Reply #10 Saturday, April 27, 2013 12:54 AM
I did use Live for awhile, but never bothered reinstalling it since I don't have my own computer with internet access, I used it on my parents' computer since my brother also uses it. I only got Skype a few weeks ago in order to attend meetings with my team for Senior Project at DeVry, without even doing video meetings. I am not the best judge of social media and messaging services, because I only infrequently use them (I am on Facebook but rarely use it) and I am not even in the internet on consoles age yet (Halo 4 has convinced me to rectify that asap).
he he.... Tom's a hero... 
thanks.... Reply #15 Saturday, April 27, 2013 8:09 AM
I left it for years after it was wrecked, but the new one is absolutely superb.
Actually...I was sort of....joking....wasn't aware ICQ was even still around.....used to skin it, too...
But...
I DO HAVE the old SDC installed still....
...and Impulse....
Reply #17 Monday, May 20, 2013 5:17 PM
If you are looking for something for small groups for playing games with friends try
its free and doesn't require a server. Just login, create your own channel and let your friends know the channel name. Its a lot less work than mumble, vent or TS3.
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Reply #1 Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:43 PM
not sure if love / hate is what I would use, but I did like messenger better. I will have to give skype more of a chance to get used to before I use hate.
Very nice find though