Messenger celebrates 10 years

About 140 million people are connected to Messenger every day
The day will send eight billion messages around the world.

Windows Live Messenger is 10 years old. Microsoft wants to celebrate and promote a social movement that begins in Spain on July 22. From that day, users can submit their best stories lived through the Messenger, and hang in a special place created for the birthday, there will be free emoticons and a tour through the history of the Messenger.

Since that first online messaging feature, back in 1999, which allowed users to talk and immediate snapshots, great advances have happened and it is now possible interaction between people in real time.

After the first 2 months of launch, MSN Messenger and had 2.5 million users. After six months amounted to 4.5 million users per month. One year after the departure of this first version, users totaled 18 million, and already available on file-sharing and free long distance calls between the U.S. and Canada, plus going from 4 to 22 languages.

In March 2001 it was possible to group contacts into groups and there was support for voice. There were 29.5 million people who use Messenger. Twenty-three Today there are three million.

Microsoft has announced many figures on its instant messaging service:

*About 140 million people are connected to Messenger every day.

*Around the world are sent daily 8.6 billion messages.

*The day will be 1.6 billion active sessions.

*There are 323,000,000 Messenger users around the world.

If sending a letter to each of the 1.6 billion Messenger sessions that happen daily, and stacked the pages one after another, the pile would reach to the moon (474,000 km of cards would be compared with the 405,000 km distance between the earth and moon).
With these 1.6 billion online sessions, and preventing the shipment of 1, 6 billion charts, we are saving 2, 8 million trees every day (taking into account that 24 trees would be required for each package office paper).