A news that 10-15 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 in which it would be said that Facebook would close tomorrow.
Yahoo! Messenger it has been the most used messaging service in the world for years. The team that coordinated this service and the application came for years with innovative ideas and features, but not every time they were well received by users. The steps taken by the competition had a hard 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 by Facebook was a stroke of luck.
These days, Oath, subsidiary a Verizon Communications, has publicly announced that starting with July 17 2018, Yahoo! Service Messenger will be closed. Users will be redirected to a group messaging service, Yahoo! Squirrel, which, oddly enough, is currently in the private beta stage. It remains to be seen whether Squirrel will go public by the closing date of Yahoo! Messenger or simply users will have to forget Verizon / Oath services and migrate to other similar platforms.
Users will have at their disposal 6 months to download Yahoo! chat history and conversations Messenger.
Yahoo explains that closing the Messenger service will allow them to focus on developing new communication tools focusit is more on the needs and requirements of the users. It remains to be seen what they will launch on the market and what will be the course of the Yahoo! Squirrel. Let's not forget that many Yahoo! in the past they were closed and they were abandoned since the beta stage.
This news comes at about 8 months after the closure of AIM, another great messaging service that has made history.
