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If you’re a Facebook defender, then you see the onus as being on Microsoft here.
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Facebook Camera (originally a stand-alone app, later transitioned into the Facebook mobile app proper) doesn’t give Windows Phone users all the bells and whistles other users enjoy.Īnd let us not forget that the valiant-if-overshot Facebook Home experiment was/is (it’s not been killed yet!) an Android-only effort (iPhone’s walled garden does not allow intrusions of such large proportions, of course). This is hardly the first time Facebook has slighted Windows Phone: The first official Facebook for WP app wasn’t introduced until June 2013 (you can see some recent reviews below), and the Facebook-owned Instagram was only added this past fall (with plenty of user complaints in tow).
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The beta version apparently feels like it was ported from Android and lacks key standalone functions that Android and iPhone users enjoy, so WP users can only hope the real deal is improved. Only last week did we get the verbal acknowledgement that this app will someday (soon?) exist. As Messenger for Windows (the desktop version) goes quietly into the night, you have to wonder why it’s taken Facebook so long to even talk about introducing a Windows Phone Facebook Messenger app. Which is why Facebook’s repeated unfriendliness to Microsoft is confusing. It was a slight gamble for Microsoft back then, a $240 million one, but at the time Facebook only had 50 million users, and now it has 1.23 billion.īut back then, netting such a strong technology company as its partner was highly beneficial for Facebook: Microsoft brought Bing support and Skype integration, as well as the opportunity to be widely used on platforms like Xbox Live. Microsoft bought a significant stake in Facebook back in 2007, three measly years into the network’s existence. What does make it interesting is the Windows part.įirst, a short history lesson. But the fact that mobile messaging is hot isn’t new, and it isn’t what makes Facebook’s decision to kill Messenger for Windows interesting. Facebook just bought WhatsApp for a remarkable $19 billion, and there are plenty of other competitors out there that send us rushing to our phones instead of our keyboards. Of course mobile messaging has swiftly, forcibly pushed desktop instant chatting into retro status. It was a useful program for when you were in the office, or in class-anywhere the telltale white and blue layout of Facebook would give your indiscretion away-but you just had to stay connected.
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In case you’ve been using the Web app like a loser (or you know, forgoing desktop chatting altogether because your phone replaced AIM and all its descendents long ago), Facebook Messenger for Windows was a simple software you downloaded and used when you weren’t logged into the social network but wanted to use its chat function.
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Update on February 27: Facebook Messenger for Firefox is also shutting down on March 3.After two years of operation, Facebook recently confirmed it will shut down its Messenger for Windows desktop app next week. The chat client was available for just under two years.
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Update: “I can confirm that we are notifying people who use Facebook Messenger for Windows that it will no longer be available as of March 3,” a Facebook spokesperson told TNW. We will update this post if we hear back.
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We have contacted Facebook for more information about this decision. An OS X version has been long expected, but that seems even less likely now. The company is of course attempting to merge the Windows and Windows Phone stores, but that’s still a long way off.įacebook Messenger for Windows was released in March 2012, following a limited beta test in November 2011. It seems Microsoft can only keep Facebook in one of its platforms at a time. “It’s looking good and we will have it for our customers soon.” “We’ve been working with Facebook testing out their implementation for a while,” Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and manager of Windows Phone, was quoted by Techcrunch as saying during a press conference at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona.
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The news comes less than three days after Microsoft announced Facebook Messenger for Windows Phone would arrive in just a few weeks.
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The page specifically says the app is available for Android and iOS, but not Windows:
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The Facebook Messenger for Windows installer is nowhere to be found on the official site. The only section relevant to Facebook Messenger for Windows is for uninstalling it. The “Learn more” link unfortunately takes the user to a generic Messages page on Facebook’s Help Center.