Facebook Messenger for Windows is out

https://www.facebook.com/about/messenger

by alpb • 14 years ago

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cantbecool• 14 years ago

Look's like a minimalist AIM with no adds.

kolev• 14 years ago

AIM is (or "was", given they're gonna shut it down) anything, but minimalistic - AIM is bloated and ugly. Facebook Messenger is nowhere close to AIM, but is super close to what the ideal Instant Messengers should be.

asciident• 14 years ago

I (and many of my friends) have been using Facebook "Messenger" on Windows for years.

You can just add your account in Pidgin: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/12527/easily-add-facebook-cha...

Then you can even use your other IM clients: Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ (ahem)

tunetosuraj• 14 years ago

Pidgin really sucks, trust me. I have used that for 3 years. Although there is no better app. But as Facebook releases its native and sexy Messenger for windows - its gonna be break through!

ender3989• 14 years ago

There's been a beta of it out for a while, pretty sure. Since like December. IMHO, it's shitty and really looks like web views thrown in an EXE wrapper.

timothya• 14 years ago

It's been out for a while - Facebook prompted me near the beginning of March to install it. It works well enough, though sending messages is a bit laggy. My biggest complaint is it's memory usage though - it must have a huge memory leak since after a day or two it's memory usage is huge (bigger than the whole of Chrome, where I have many tabs open, vs. it which is just running in the background with nothing showing).

justncase80• 14 years ago

It's built in to win8, in the Messages app.

Facebook Messenger for Windows is out

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