Is Windows Live Messenger (msn messenger) Down?
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MSN Messenger, later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft
http://messenger.live.com
0 recorded outage reports in the displayed 24-hour window.
Two recent website checks failed. App and API availability may differ.
Estimated down reports for Windows Live Messenger — last 24 hours
Not enough Google Trends data is available for this service yet.
No user-submitted outage reports in the last 24 hours.
Windows Live Messenger website uptime and response time
DNS lookup failed Last checked 2026-10-19 05:41:05 UTC.
Checked address: http://messenger.live.com/
DNS lookup: unknown ms · TCP connection: unknown ms · TLS handshake: unknown ms. Diagnostic: ENOTFOUND.
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Successful website checks (24h)
0 successful / 8 measurable checks
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Median response time
Unknown
95th percentile response time
8 failed checks; 0 restricted checks. Restricted checks are excluded from the success rate. Gaps are unknown. Response time measures receipt of HTTP headers, not full page load. Checks run from one US monitoring server and do not verify sign-in, API, or app features. These sampled results are separate from down reports and Google activity.
Evidence behind the status
Repeated website check failures. Two recent website checks failed. App and API availability may differ.
- Official provider feed: not available for this service.
- Direct website measurements: 8 checks in the last 24 hours.
- Google Trends estimate: 0 samples; last checked Unknown.
- Autocomplete: 0 recent query observations. Suggestions are not individual down reports.
Sources measure different things. A reachable homepage can coexist with login or API failures. Missing evidence stays unknown.
Official component status
No mapped official components are available for this product. Parent-company status is not substituted for product status.
Official incident timeline
No product-matched incidents are available in the collected provider history. This does not prove that no incident occurred.
Recovery tracker
No recent recovery can be established from available evidence.
0 consecutive successful checks within the last 30 minutes. These checks measure the public website; they cannot establish recovery of every feature.
Slowdown detection
More successful checks are needed to establish a response-time baseline.
Recent median: unknown · Earlier median: unknown. Flags require at least 3 recent and 5 earlier checks, more than twice the baseline, and at least 500 ms extra latency. Slowness alone does not identify server load as the cause.
Emerging down-report signals
No recent problem-related autocomplete suggestions have been collected for this service.
US English Google autocomplete suggestions help discover problem patterns. They can persist after an incident and do not measure report counts or prove an outage. New phrases require corroboration before accelerating Trends collection.
Is it down in your region?
Run one public website check from a community probe. Results describe that probe, not every user in a country.
Powered by Globalping. Results are reused for 15 minutes. Shared free allowance: up to 60 tests per hour. A successful website check does not verify authenticated app or API functions.
Infrastructure incident context
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No active incidents in this collected feed.
More about Windows Live Messenger service
MSN Messenger, later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. It connected to the Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions, was compatible with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger. Versions were developed for Windows, Xbox 360, Mac OS X, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Java ME, S60 on Symbian OS 9.x, MSN TV, Zune HD, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile and Windows CE. The client was first released as MSN Messenger Service on July 22, 1999, and was marketed under the MSN brand until 2005, when it was rebranded under the Windows Live name. It has since been officially known by the latter name, although its first name remained in common use. In June 2009, Microsoft reported the service attracted over 330 million active users each month, placing it among the most widely used instant-messaging clients in the world.
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