Microsoft announced its plans to discontinue Messenger in
November, the company is directing customers to sign in to Skype with their
Windows Live login information, noting that their contact lists will
automatically show up in the Skype software.
Skype has a Windows app, but curiously, it lacks a Windows
Phone 8 app, even though it offers an app for iPhone and Android devices. A
preview version of a mobile Skype app for Windows Phone is in the works and
will be available "soon," according to the Skype team.
The Windows Live Messenger service has faded in popularity
as Skype, social networks and Google's chat service became a more common way of
communicating with friends and family.
