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Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft that is designed to work with Windows XP (up to Wave 3), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Windows CE, Xbox 360, Blackberry OS, iOS, Java ME, S60 on Symbian OS 9.x, and Zune HD.[1] The client has been part of Microsoft's Windows Live set of online services since 2005. It connects to Microsoft Messenger service. The client was first released as MSN Messenger on July 22, 1999,[2] and as Windows Live Messenger on December 13, 2005.[3] In June 2009, Microsoft reported the service attracted over 330 million active users each month.

On November 6, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Live Messenger will be retired in favor of Skype worldwide except mainland China. Users using Windows Live Messenger are able to merge their Microsoft account with their Skype account, allowing them to communicate with their Messenger contacts via the Skype clients. Users will have until March 15th, 2013 to make the transition.[4]Contents [hide]
1 Features
1.1 Album Viewer
1.2 Appear offline to individuals or categories
1.3 Social networks integration
1.4 Offline messaging
1.5 Games and applications
2 Platform integration and interoperability
2.1 Interoperability
2.2 Xbox integration
3 Protocol
3.1 Content filtering
4 "i’m" initiative
5 Messenger Companion
6 Microsoft Messenger for Mac
6.1 Versions
7 Version history
7.1 MSN Messenger
7.2 Windows Live Messenger 8.0
7.3 Windows Live Messenger 8.1
7.4 Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (Wave 2)
7.5 Windows Live Messenger 2009 (Wave 3)
7.6 Windows Live Messenger 2011 (Wave 4)
7.7 Windows Live Messenger 2012 (Wave 5)
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

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Features

In addition to its basic functionality and general capability as an instant messaging client, the latest version of Windows Live Messenger offers the following features:
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Album Viewer
See also: Windows Photo Gallery

Windows Live Messenger's album viewer is based on Windows Photo Gallery and provides users a photo viewing experience for photo albums shared via SkyDrive and Facebook. The album viewer is interactive and supports full screen and slideshow modes, as well as viewing and uploading comments on Facebook and SkyDrive albums. It also supports people tagging for SkyDrive. The album viewer closely resembles the Microsoft Silverlight counterpart for web photo albums present on SkyDrive.
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Appear offline to individuals or categories

Windows Live Messenger allow users to appear offline to particular individual contacts, as well as to an entire category within Windows Live Messenger, while appearing online to other contacts.

This is a recent feature of Windows Live Messenger 2011, and is a departure from the previous versions of Windows Live Messenger, where blocking a contact would prevent the "blockee" from sending the user any messages to the "blocker". With the "appear offline to" configuration currently implemented, "hidden from" users can still send "offline messages" to the target.[5]
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Social networks integration

Users can connect services such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn using Windows Live Profile, and display their contact's Messenger social updates within the "Full view" of Windows Live Messenger. Users can also post status updates and photos directly to the connected services within Windows Live Messenger. Additionally, Messenger also imports all contacts from the connected services and integrates with Facebook Chat (via the XMPP protocol) for instant messaging support with users on Facebook.