The Yahoo chat service was introduced on 9 March 1998,which was very popular in those days. Slowly there was decline in user base eventually, with several new services rising to the fore, including Google Talk, social networks like Facebook, and smartphone chat apps like WhatsApp. Yahoo had announced a new version of Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop in December 2015.

In a statement issue by Yahoo they said “This complete revamp brings users an incredibly fast, beautiful and smart way to send – and unsend – messages, photos, and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations. While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to complete their transition to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August 5, 2016. We intend to continue our focused efforts on the new Messenger, with a goal of delivering the best experience to our users,”

Yahoo might integrate new features in the new version of Yahoo Messenger to compete with other messager services.The company said that the new version will be available on Windows and Mac.

The “Archived messages” that are now saved in the user’s Yahoo Mail, will also get deleted by August 5. Users can export them to laptop/desktop before the said date. Another service that gets discontinued is Yahoo Recommends. This will disappear by September 1, 2016. Instead, the company has asked the users to use Yahoo Gemini, a new monetization tool that provides publishers access to native advertising technology and high-quality ads.

IN India who are using Facebook Messenger app on Android and iOS platforms have facility to  make calls for free. This call is applicable to make voice calls to anyone on their friend list.

Facebook upgraded its Messenger app by adding a "free call" button in the app available for smartphones based on android and iOS platforms. Earlier service was introduced in US and Canada, almost a year ago and is now available in India.

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It's goodbye time for Microsoft's MSN Web messenger. The IT giant Microsoft recently said that its popular messenger platform MSN wou
ld retire and be replaced by already available new IM in the Windows Live Hotmail.

According to a blog on the Windows Live team website, "With new web-based instant messaging (IM) now available in Windows Live Hotmail worldwide, we are preparing to retire MSN Web Messenger. The old MSN Web Messenger experience will end on June 30, 2009."

The new messenger aims to provide users with easier and convenient communication while checking mails on the company's free email service Hotmail. With Hotmail's new web-based IM, users can chat from their inbox or contact list, instead of going to MSN Web Messenger, added the blog.