It has since been officially known by the latter name, although its first name remained in common use. The client was first released as MSN Messenger Service on July 22, 1999, and was marketed under the MSN brand until 2005, when it was rebranded under the Windows Live name. The service was discontinued in 2013, replaced by Skype was bought on the 10th of May 2011 for 8.5B US Dollars This Purchase was completed in October and while it was in process skype Updated to version 5.3 changing it's logo to the actual one. It connected to the now-discontinued Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions, was compatible with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger.
MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as 'MSN' ), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft.
