As we know, WinAmp pass “retired” on December 20. On the Web emerged, however, was reported, which show that perhaps this did not happen.

Certainly the vast majority of you have enjoyed, or at least heard of WinAmp player , which was created by NullSoft acquired in 1999 by America Online (AOL ), and that for a certain period even enjoyed stunning popularity. In time, however, users have turned away from him, which was caused in, among others, application development reaching toward the massive expansion of what has become a rather sluggish.

In the end we found out officially yesterday that the project WinAmp is closed and from December 20, 2013 year will not be able to download the installer program.

comes the rescue?

Today, however, there were very interesting speculation. Service TechCrunch asserts that it is interested in buying WinAmp Microsft. Official information about the investment would be supposed to occur on December 20, the day of the passage of the “retired”.

In addition, the source of these revelations argues that AOL intends next week to close the Shoutcast service. So maybe Microsoft said investment will be linked to the purchase of two products.