Comment on The Once-beloved Microsoft Messenger to Finally Shut Down in Mainland China by FoolOfATook

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Many Chinese users of Windows Live Messenger, more commonly referred to as MSN in short in China, have received an email which says the service will close down on October 31st (two months away) in mainland China. The mainland China was the exception when Microsoft decided to shut down the Messenger in March 2013, for the service was operated locally. Officially introduced into mainland China in 2005, the Messenger had been well-regarded before fraudulent messages expanded from QQ to it. As of the first quarter of 2013 when Microsoft discontinued the Messenger in the rest of the world, QQ had 825 million monthly active users, with the majority were in China, while Messenger only had over 100 million users worldwide. It’s unknown how many users MSN still has in mainland China.