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A new Yahoo! Messenger was released in 2015, replacing the older one. Yahoo! Messenger was shut down entirely on July 17, 2018, replaced by a new service titled Yahoo! Together, only to be shut down as well in 2019.
2017: AOL officially shutters its Instant Messenger platform after a 20-year run. It also announces the inception of Oath, Verizon's new digital umbrella, bringing AOL, Yahoo, HuffPost,...
On October 6, 2017, it was announced that the AIM service would be discontinued on December 15; however, a non-profit development team known as Wildman Productions started up a server for older versions of AOL Instant Messenger, known as AIM Phoenix.
MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. It connected to the now-discontinued Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions, was compatible with Yahoo!
Cody Fenwick, Patch Staff. NEW YORK, NY — AOL Instant Messenger — commonly called "AIM" by those in the know — will be shutting down on Dec. 15, ending the once dominant chat program that ...
AOL Instant Messenger (discontinued in 2017) Messages/iChat: uses ICQ's UIN as an AIM screenname, for macOS; See also. Comparison of instant messaging clients; Comparison of instant messaging protocols; LAN messenger; Online chat; Windows Live Messenger; Tencent QQ; References
This is an alphabetic list of defunct instant messaging platforms, showing the name, when it was discontinued and the type of client. Yahoo! Messenger, 1998–2018.
Yahoo! discontinues its services for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris clients in early August 2016. It will now only support Yahoo! Messenger on Android , iOS , and web clients.
It lost market share to competition in the instant messenger market such as Google Chat, Facebook Messenger, and Skype. It also included a video-chat service, AV by AIM. On December 15, 2017, AOL discontinued AIM.
Following this, Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL agreed to a deal in which Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 users would also have the possibility to talk to public instant messaging users. This deal established SIP/SIMPLE as a standard for protocol interoperability and established a connectivity fee for accessing public instant messaging ...