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.

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 ...

You might think that archaic chat program MSN Messenger was dead and buried. In 2013, Microsoft announced the service would be retired and gradually integrated into Skype. But the program has remained ...

REDMOND, Wash., April 7, 2005 —Today, the MSN® network of Internet services began rolling out the latest versions of MSN Messenger and MSN Spaces in markets around the world. New breakthroughs in ...

REDMOND, Wash., March 16, 2001 — The MSN® network of Internet services, the leading consumer network in the world, with 230 million unique users, today announced that the latest data released by Media ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms (META) has shut down the desktop version of its popular Messenger app. The desktop Messenger app, also called ...

For the first time, a virus has wormed its way into Microsoft's popular MSN Messenger Service--but the slow-moving, crash-inducing pest is unlikely to cause significant damage. Microsoft posted a ...