A news that 10 to 15 years ago would have been a shock for many Internet users, today it is possible to go unnoticed. At that time it would have caused a shock as big as an official announcement that would say that tomorrow would close Facebook.
Yahoo! Messenger It has been years in a row the most used messaging service around the world. The team coordinated this service and the application came for years with innovative ideas and features, but not each time they were well received by users. The steps taken by the competition had a difficult word in the decline of the application. From year to year, hundreds of thousands of users have migrated to other messaging / chat platforms, and the launch of the "Messenger" service was the graceful blow.
These days, Oath, subsidiary a Verizon Communications, publicly announced that starting with the date of July 17, 2018, Yahoo! Messenger will be closed. Users will be redirected to a group messaging service, Yahoo! Squirrel, which strangely at the moment is in the private beta stage. It is to be seen if Squirrel will become public until the date of Yahoo! Messenger or simply users will have to forget the Verizon / Oath services and migrate to other similar platforms.
Users will have 6 months at their disposal in which they can download the history and conversations from Yahoo! Messenger.
Yahoo explains that the closure of the Messenger service will allow them to focus on developing new communication tools more on the needs and requirements of the users. It will remain to be seen and what they will launch on the market and what will be the course of the Yahoo! Squirrel. Let's not forget that many Yahoo! From the past they were closed and has been given up from the Beta stage.
This news comes about 8 months after the closure of AIM, to another great messaging service that made history.
