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FERHAT SERTEL
WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER HISTORY
ENG 204
GULSEN HUSSEIN
Windows Live Messenger – a short history


 The instant messaging category got going in
  earnest around 1996 with the debut of ICQ,
  around the same time that Hotmail was
  founded. Over the next two years, each of
  what are now the leading IM services
  launched in rapid succession: AIM, Yahoo!
  Messenger, QQ, and our own MSN
  Messenger
Messenger1999 and Messenger today
The original MSN Messenger team
Over the following six years, instant messaging services as
a category enjoyed explosive, viral growth, ultimately
reaching well over half a billion active users sharing
hundreds of billions of messages every month.
Like every major new communications paradigm over the
past 20+ years, the thirst and demand that people have to
connect, communicate, and share with one another is
nearly limitless. E-mail didn’t disrupt or reduce phone
usage – it added to it. IM didn’t disrupt or reduce e-mail –
it added to it. The same goes for mobile phones and text
messaging, and the same too, for social networking over
the past 5 years.
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That’s interesting to keep in mind – especially for readers in the United States,
where the IM trends (and particularly Messenger’s popularity) have been
somewhat less positive. On the one hand, as users ourselves, we’re all daily
participants in the rise of Facebook, MySpace, QQ, and the overall "social" category
of web services around the world, and it’s awesome to see our partners’ successes.
Today, social networking services as a whole drive a similar number of minutes as e-
mail or IM. Even though globally, e-mail and IM have basically peaked and leveled
off, people continue to spend roughly the same amount of time using them, while
social networks have grown to match. And even with all of that new activity, those
same people are still connecting, communicating, and sharing more than ever with
the people they care about via IM. And yes, it really is mainly the same people –
for example, globally, 44% of people who use Facebook in a given month also use
Hotmail or Messenger in that same month, and vice versa 66% of monthly
Messenger users also use Facebook, according to Comscore.
The original social networks
 IM services really were the original "social networks." They first popularized
  the notions of viral invitations and social graphs, real-time and
  asynchronous messaging with friends, sharing of status messages and
  other content, online activities and casual games to enjoy with your friends,
  and rich personal expression—from the humble emoticon , to winks,
  nudges, and more. IM services have always been optimized for sharing
  among a close circle of friends, and really pivoted around online presence
  and real-time conversations more than connecting you to your content and
  activities from the rest of the Web.
 Combining the social focus of instant messaging with the fact that IM
  clients are installed by default on the vast majority of PCs and are generally
  "always on" means there's a great opportunity for collaboration and
  integration between traditional IM services like Messenger and the wide
  range of social networks and other sites that our joint users are already on.
  You’ve already seen Windows Live and other leading IM services come out
  with social networking features like our What's new feed, and there is much
  more to come.
 So given that basic context, let’s walk through some fun facts about
  Messenger…
People still IM… a lot
   More than 300 million people in 76 countries and 48 languages use
    Messenger every month they say “I you” and “LOL” not only in
    English, Spanish, German and Japanese (the first 4 languages we offered) but
    also in Chinese, Estonian, Thai, Catalan, Hindi, and many more.
   Messenger users now represent:
       65% of all Internet users in Brazil
       48% of all Internet users in Canada
       48% of all Internet users in Spain
       47% of all Internet users in France
       40% of all Internet users in Italy
       39% of all Internet users in UK
   People use Messenger for 163 billion minutes every month, which is about
    9.4% of all time consumers spend on the Internet worldwide.
   More than 40% of our users sign in each day (more than 130 million daily
    users)
   Every day, those users share over 1.5 billion conversations and send more
    than 9 billion messages.
   And at peak times, that drives more than 40 million “simultaneous online
    connections,” (the number of people signed in at the same time).
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Status messages, profile pictures,
and other personal expression
 Messenger and other instant messaging apps
  really were the first places that hundreds of
  millions of people started updating their
  status messages for their friends, and
  including emoticons and other kinds of fun
  personal expression online. Messenger users
  still do that a lot, right alongside more
  recently popular activities like social
  networking and mobile text messaging.
 Messenger users share over 1 billion status updates every
    month
   Those users often click through from the Messenger client
    to the Web, helping drive more than 300 million users to
    Windows Live Profile, Home, and SkyDrive every month.
   With the Messenger application on Facebook, you can use
    the “always on” Messenger client on your PC to
    automatically update your Facebook status.
   Likewise, with the Windows Live web activities partnerships
    with 74 sites around the world like
    Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Hyves, and more, you
    can share your status updates and activities on those sites
    with your Messenger friends, in the What’s New feed in the
    main Messenger window.
   Just like ring tones and phone skins, people love emoticons
    and other forms of personal expression they use to adorn
    Messenger and their IM conversations– sharing tens of
    millions of profile picture updates each
    month, purchasing millions of emoticon packs, and using
    other fun features like Messenger scenes that add a
    personal touch to how their friends see them in Messenger.
Messenger windows with different scenes
Dynamic display pictures
Looking ahead
 Like Hotmail, Messenger is one of the largest scale
  communication and sharing services in the world, with a
  strong 10 year history of reliability, performance, and
  innovation. We're particularly proud of Messenger's role in
  the history of helping people connect, communicate, and
  share online with the people they care about most, and
  we're working hard every day on new ways for Messenger
  to keep playing that role as a great partner to the modern
  web ecosystem around us.
 In upcoming posts we’ll talk more about how Messenger is
  built, how people are using different Messenger
  features, and how we’re thinking about the evolution of our
  role as a social application. Until then, I hope you’ll continue
  to use Messenger and to keep the feedback and comments
  coming!
KAYNAK

 http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/
 b/windowslive/archive/2010/02/09/windows-
 live-messenger-a-short-history.aspx

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Ferhat sertel

  • 1. Near East University FERHAT SERTEL WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER HISTORY ENG 204 GULSEN HUSSEIN
  • 2. Windows Live Messenger – a short history  The instant messaging category got going in earnest around 1996 with the debut of ICQ, around the same time that Hotmail was founded. Over the next two years, each of what are now the leading IM services launched in rapid succession: AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, QQ, and our own MSN Messenger
  • 4. The original MSN Messenger team
  • 5. Over the following six years, instant messaging services as a category enjoyed explosive, viral growth, ultimately reaching well over half a billion active users sharing hundreds of billions of messages every month. Like every major new communications paradigm over the past 20+ years, the thirst and demand that people have to connect, communicate, and share with one another is nearly limitless. E-mail didn’t disrupt or reduce phone usage – it added to it. IM didn’t disrupt or reduce e-mail – it added to it. The same goes for mobile phones and text messaging, and the same too, for social networking over the past 5 years.
  • 7. That’s interesting to keep in mind – especially for readers in the United States, where the IM trends (and particularly Messenger’s popularity) have been somewhat less positive. On the one hand, as users ourselves, we’re all daily participants in the rise of Facebook, MySpace, QQ, and the overall "social" category of web services around the world, and it’s awesome to see our partners’ successes. Today, social networking services as a whole drive a similar number of minutes as e- mail or IM. Even though globally, e-mail and IM have basically peaked and leveled off, people continue to spend roughly the same amount of time using them, while social networks have grown to match. And even with all of that new activity, those same people are still connecting, communicating, and sharing more than ever with the people they care about via IM. And yes, it really is mainly the same people – for example, globally, 44% of people who use Facebook in a given month also use Hotmail or Messenger in that same month, and vice versa 66% of monthly Messenger users also use Facebook, according to Comscore.
  • 8. The original social networks  IM services really were the original "social networks." They first popularized the notions of viral invitations and social graphs, real-time and asynchronous messaging with friends, sharing of status messages and other content, online activities and casual games to enjoy with your friends, and rich personal expression—from the humble emoticon , to winks, nudges, and more. IM services have always been optimized for sharing among a close circle of friends, and really pivoted around online presence and real-time conversations more than connecting you to your content and activities from the rest of the Web.  Combining the social focus of instant messaging with the fact that IM clients are installed by default on the vast majority of PCs and are generally "always on" means there's a great opportunity for collaboration and integration between traditional IM services like Messenger and the wide range of social networks and other sites that our joint users are already on. You’ve already seen Windows Live and other leading IM services come out with social networking features like our What's new feed, and there is much more to come.  So given that basic context, let’s walk through some fun facts about Messenger…
  • 9. People still IM… a lot  More than 300 million people in 76 countries and 48 languages use Messenger every month they say “I you” and “LOL” not only in English, Spanish, German and Japanese (the first 4 languages we offered) but also in Chinese, Estonian, Thai, Catalan, Hindi, and many more.  Messenger users now represent:  65% of all Internet users in Brazil  48% of all Internet users in Canada  48% of all Internet users in Spain  47% of all Internet users in France  40% of all Internet users in Italy  39% of all Internet users in UK  People use Messenger for 163 billion minutes every month, which is about 9.4% of all time consumers spend on the Internet worldwide.  More than 40% of our users sign in each day (more than 130 million daily users)  Every day, those users share over 1.5 billion conversations and send more than 9 billion messages.  And at peak times, that drives more than 40 million “simultaneous online connections,” (the number of people signed in at the same time).
  • 11. Status messages, profile pictures, and other personal expression  Messenger and other instant messaging apps really were the first places that hundreds of millions of people started updating their status messages for their friends, and including emoticons and other kinds of fun personal expression online. Messenger users still do that a lot, right alongside more recently popular activities like social networking and mobile text messaging.
  • 12.  Messenger users share over 1 billion status updates every month  Those users often click through from the Messenger client to the Web, helping drive more than 300 million users to Windows Live Profile, Home, and SkyDrive every month.  With the Messenger application on Facebook, you can use the “always on” Messenger client on your PC to automatically update your Facebook status.  Likewise, with the Windows Live web activities partnerships with 74 sites around the world like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Hyves, and more, you can share your status updates and activities on those sites with your Messenger friends, in the What’s New feed in the main Messenger window.  Just like ring tones and phone skins, people love emoticons and other forms of personal expression they use to adorn Messenger and their IM conversations– sharing tens of millions of profile picture updates each month, purchasing millions of emoticon packs, and using other fun features like Messenger scenes that add a personal touch to how their friends see them in Messenger.
  • 13. Messenger windows with different scenes
  • 15. Looking ahead  Like Hotmail, Messenger is one of the largest scale communication and sharing services in the world, with a strong 10 year history of reliability, performance, and innovation. We're particularly proud of Messenger's role in the history of helping people connect, communicate, and share online with the people they care about most, and we're working hard every day on new ways for Messenger to keep playing that role as a great partner to the modern web ecosystem around us.  In upcoming posts we’ll talk more about how Messenger is built, how people are using different Messenger features, and how we’re thinking about the evolution of our role as a social application. Until then, I hope you’ll continue to use Messenger and to keep the feedback and comments coming!