If you are using Windows Live Essentials on Windows XP, or are still using a pre-2011 version of Windows Live Essentials (including Messenger), starting this week, you’ll see a required update that is rolling out in all 48 languages. This minor update to Windows Live Messenger and the other Windows Live Essentials programs includes a set of important security updates, performance improvements, targeted bug fixes, and some other, minor changes.
Compulsory update? No thanks. Skype now does all that messenger did, and we trust skype more in our house. I have three laptops all telling me I must update or no longer use msn messenger. If that’s the choice, bye bye microsoft messenger… I’m not going to be dictated to. If I get much more of this it’ll be ubuntu for me. The only reason I haven’t already migrated is because I’m too lazy. But I have run ubuntu in the past, and it’s quite easy to get up and running compared to early versions of windoze. Ubuntu, open office, thunderbird and firefox, should make me a fast, reliable and more secure computer.