New Delhi: After eighteen long years since Yahoo rolled out its most popular communication service, the Yahoo Messenger, the company has officially announced to shut it down. The Yahoo Messenger will be deactivated from August 5 and after this date, users will not be able to access their chats.
The app was introduced in 1998 as “Yahoo Pager” but later renamed as Yahoo Messenger. The app got its latest revamp on December last year.
Yahoo’s latest version of the app will come with a complete makeover and allow users with an incredibly fast, beautiful and smart way to send—and unsend—messages, photos and animated GIFs and group conversations. The new Messenger is available the App Store and Google Play.
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Yahoo will now focus on other core products such as Mail, Search, tumblr, News, Sports, Finance and Lifestyles.
The company mentioned via a blogpost that, “While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to complete their transition to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August 5, 2016. We intend to continue our focused efforts on the new Messenger, with a goal of delivering the best experience to our users.”
