Internet service provider America Online Inc. (AOL) is taking aggressive steps to combat spam and close a security loophole by turning off a Microsoft Corp. Windows feature that spammers are ...

Microsoft this week will introduce a test version of Windows XP that significantly boosts the abilities of its instant-messaging software to provide text, chat, video, audio and telephony services ...

"The Windows Messenger Service vulnerability is clearly the most significant of those released last week by Microsoft," said Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec's security response center ...

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled plans to embed its Messenger software in the Windows XP desktop, making the instant messaging tool now available through MSN readily available on a user's desktop.

Microsoft has announced that it will pull the plug on Windows Messenger on March 15. The computing giant revealed plans in November to migrate users of the service over to Skype, and today ...

IM client that supports SIP (ie. Windows Messenger) or IM client and a SIP gateway (the Lotus SameTime strategy) In the case of XP, built into the OS.

Windows Live Messenger 8.1 also includes a “roaming identity” feature that allows not only a person’s display name to follow users any place they sign into, ...

Is there anything I can do to prevent disconnections? I appear connected until I try to contact someone, when Messenger tells me I am "not signed in". My friends say I am offline, leading me to ...