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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A worm that first disguised itself as an e-mail from computer vendors now attempts to trick MSN Messenger users into executing malicious files. The Chod.B worm, which was first discovered on April ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...