I must admit that I really miss MSN (Windows Live Messenger) a lot. Microsoft killed it off for no reason, well they bought Skype. There own messenger was clearly better at messaging. Features like custom Emoticons (NOT Emoji) and offline messaging were great. Skype doesn't offer these. Offline messaging doesn't work the way you think it is, e.g. you sent an offline message to one of contacts and think the receiver got your message. Nope, the receiver will only get that message if you're both online at the same time. As for Skype's stock Emoticons, they suck!!! You can't add your own custom *bling bling* Emoticons.
It all started when Microsoft removed the fancy feature of being able to change the nickname, since they wanted to integrate Facebook into MSN which failed horribly. MSN was stripped off its own features.

Nowadays all cool kids use WhatsApp, Facebook, Viber and all that new generation mobile spoon. Nobody ever thought how the Smartphone could change the way wee use the Internet. Microsoft was always late and too proud about releasing there stuff on other systems, so they missed their chance on iOS and Android. Desktop IMs are not that important anymore, everything is now focused on mobile.

So, what do you guys think about Instant Messaging today?