The service was available for Windows, but also for Mac OS X, Xbox 360, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Java ME, Symbian or Zune HD, and in 2009 it reached 330 million active users per month.Ĭurrently, the application that takes its place in Windows 10 is Skype. We could even refer to it as the WhatsApp of the time, simply because almost all young people who used the internet had an account there. MSN Messenger, later called Windows Live Messenger, is one of the most mythical applications of the past decade. We have several of them, from the two we have mentioned to Encarta, Microsoft Works or minesweeper itself. Today we bring you a compilation with eleven of these mythical Microsoft programs, mentioning in each case what your current natural substitute is.
Do you remember when you cursed Clippy for his intrusion or when you reconnected a thousand times to Messenger to send messages with each reconnection notification? These were just two of many Microsoft programs that, for better or for worse, became iconic in their time and are no longer in existence today.
