The email was a breakthrough to communication at a time the only means of sending messages was through postal mails at the post office. However, with the advent of instant messaging, it blew all the previous methods of communication away. The ability to send messages and receive instant reply is just amazing. This is one of the foremost applications used for instant messaging across the globe. Skype is a more popular alternative today.
This is a live messaging client that supports text, voice, and video. It is an excellent for personal use to chat with family and friends and has also been used for business communications around the world.
The chat has a couple of added features that make it interesting such as different types of emoji and emoticons, a sharing folder that can send files to friends by dragging the files to the folder.
Windows Live Messenger is licensed as freeware for PC or laptop with Windows 32 bit and 64 bit operating system. It is in instant messaging category and is available to all software users as a free download.