Microsoft is celebrating the ten years of success for its Windows Live Messenger. The instant messaging client, formerly known as MSN, was created for Windows operating systems including the mobile version and became one of the world’s most popular applications of its kind.
As Windows Live Messenger turned ten, Microsoft wants to remember us its story since the debut.
12 years ago, users of the NetMeeting audio-visual communication client wanted to do more with the application, such as finding people they wanted to communicate with, so Microsoft enabled them to keep a list of friends and see who was online and when.
After the Buddy List project there were several major improvements made to what it became the world’s leading instant messaging service, according to Microsoft.
With this occasion, the company put up a call for stories on the Messenger blog to find out the most impressive stories from users of Windows Live Messenger, the application that changed their lives.
Since the beginning, the team setup a real-time counter to find out the number of simultaneous online connections around the clock. If back then the numbers revealed tens of thousands of SOCs, raising to 1 million SOCs after the first year, now the company prouds itself with over over 40 million simultaneous online connections.
The comScore research revealed that six out of 10 users of the instant messenger application use Windows Live Messenger, while the service has now over 330 million active users sending 9.4 billion messages daily.
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