MSN

Microsoft the owners of Msn have decided that Msn is going to shut down. The reason for this is because there are not enough users using Msn compared to Skype. Users of Msn these days have well over 100million people using it however that is nothing compared to the other Microsoft owned program Skype, which has over 280 million users. Windows live messenger will pull the plug on msn by March 2013 and in its place Microsoft will give every single computer (Microsoft). Windows live messenger will remain open in china only but everywhere else will get rid of it. Skype was bought by Microsoft for £5.8 billion and they are hoping that this will be a new very popular IMS and that Skype will become ‘the new msn’. However you will be able to sign in to Skype using msn details

Task 2.5

 

a)      Satya and Simon could text their friends to tell their friends what they’re doing, but this is more expensive then emailing them or even using Facebook and Twitter- although with Facebook and Twitter there is a security issue as people can find out where you are and what you’re doing. In my opinion, email or Private Messaging through Facebook or Twitter would be the best and cheapest option, although you will have to have WiFi connection/Wired connection.

b)      Satya and Simon have multiple ways of sending a photo, attaching a photo to an email is good as you can also type a message with it, and it is free as long as you have connection to the internet. MMS would be one of the worst choices as you have to pay and if you want to send a message along with it, it will cost even more. Uploading it to an online album, blog or social networking sight is a bad idea unless you have security settings set so that only certain people can see the photo.