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Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger became interoperable on July 12, 2006. The announcement came after years of third-party interoperability success (most notably, PowWow by Tribal Voice, Trillian, Pidgin) and criticisms from Tribal Voice and iCast that the major real time communications services were locking their networks. On October 13, 2005, Yahoo! and Microsoft announced plans to add interoperability between their messenger services. See also: Windows Live Messenger Mobile Interoperability
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Additionally, a user can start conversations even when his or her status is set to Appear Offline in Windows Live Messenger 2009 or before. One can send messages to contacts who are offline they will receive the messages once they come online. 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. Users can also post status updates and photos directly to the connected services within Windows Live Messenger. 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. With the "appear offline to" configuration currently implemented, "hidden from" users can still send "offline messages" to the target. 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". 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. Appear offline to individuals or categories The album viewer closely resembles the Microsoft Silverlight counterpart for web photo albums present on SkyDrive. It also supports people tagging for SkyDrive.

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The album viewer is interactive and supports full screen and slideshow modes, as well as viewing and uploading comments on Facebook and SkyDrive albums. 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. Microsoft will begin the transition for all users from April 8, 2013. The function allowing users to merge their Skype accounts with Microsoft account was introduced, allowing them to communicate with their Messenger contacts via the Skype clients. On November 6, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Live Messenger will be retired (except in mainland China) in favor of Skype.

In June 2009, Microsoft reported the service attracted over 330 million active users each month.

The client was first released as MSN Messenger on July 22, 1999, and as Windows Live Messenger on December 13, 2005. It connects to Microsoft Messenger service. The client has been part of Microsoft's Windows Live set of online services since 2005. Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client created by Microsoft to work with Windows XP (up to Wave 3), Windows Vista (up to Wave 4), Windows 7, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, Windows CE, Xbox 360, Blackberry OS, iOS, Java ME, S60 on Symbian OS 9.x, and Zune HD.
