{"id":656429,"date":"2013-05-07T03:03:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=147653"},"modified":"2013-05-07T03:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T07:03:57","slug":"say-no-to-skype-and-bring-messenger-back-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656429","title":{"rendered":"Say no to Skype and bring Messenger back from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-147657\" title=\"messenger\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/messenger-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"228\" \/>Four weeks ago, Microsoft flicked the switch and officially merged <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/04\/08\/are-you-ready-messenger-merges-with-skype\/\" >Windows Live Messenger with Skype<\/a>. Users of the popular IM tool were greeted with a message stating &#8220;A newer version is available. You must install the newer version in order to continue.\u00a0 Would you like to do this now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Skype is a great tool, many fans of Messenger were up in arms about the forced change, and I know people who still pine for the old chat application. Fortunately, there\u2019s a very simple way to get it back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/messengergeek.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/23\/use-messenger-reviver-2-to-bring-back-messenger-and-beat-skype\/\" >Messenger Reviver 2<\/a> automatically installs, repairs and\/or modifies Windows Live Messenger 2012, 2011, 2009, and 2008 (as well as Windows Messenger) so you can continue using and signing in to the old service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147659\" title=\"Messenger Reviver2\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Messenger-Reviver2-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/>Run the program and it will detect installed versions of Messenger and let you revive them. It will also offer links so you can download and install a fresh copy of the chat tool.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll then be able to sign in and use Messenger as if Skype never happened.<\/p>\n<p>Messenger is set to be fully discontinued at some point (March 2014 is the current estimate), so this isn\u2019t a permanent fix, but it will buy you at least ten months of respite, and give you the chance to say your goodbyes properly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=bsLAybZ0Z3w:WPXgdka3mzg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=bsLAybZ0Z3w:WPXgdka3mzg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/bsLAybZ0Z3w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four weeks ago, Microsoft flicked the switch and officially merged Windows Live Messenger with Skype. Users of the popular IM tool were greeted with a message stating &#8220;A newer version is available. You must install the newer version in order to continue.\u00a0 Would you like to do this now?&#8221; Although Skype is a great tool, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}