Microsoft shutting Windows Live Messenger on March 15, 2013

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger service will be discontinued from March 15, 2013 – the tech giant confirmed in an email it sent out to its 100 million+ Messenger users on Tuesday, The Next Web reports. Post that date, all Messenger users will be migrated to Skype. It was in November this year that Skype declared in an official blog post that Microsoft was phasing out Messenger and had started migrating contacts to Skype. At the time, Tony Bates, President – Skype division, Microsoft, revealed that the move would happen in the first quarter of 2013. He said so without giving out a clear date. Click here for full story