Facebook launches a desktop app for Messenger on both Mac and Windows. A look at the good, the bad and the promising.

For now, Facebook Messenger for Windows 10 is apparently limited to PCs and tablets, which goes against the whole universal Windows app paradigm.

Among other things, Facebook will release a dedicated Messenger app for macOS and Windows 10 this year, which is an exciting development for the popular chat service.

Facebook has announced that its Facebook Messenger service for Windows desktop PCs and Firefox will be discontinued next week. The standalone messenger client will cease working on March 3, and ...

Facebook Messenger for Windows is available for users to download and test. The client enables the social network's subscribers to communicate with their friends without the use of a browser.

The new version of Facebook Messenger for Windows 10 is rolling out to select users. The app is completely rewritten and is at feature parity with the iOS and Android versions of Facebook Messenger.

Windows Live Messenger also is available in eight new languages: Bulgarian, Estonian, Croatian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian Latin, Thai, and Ukrainian.

The core Facebook app and Messenger for Windows 10 arrive on Thursday in the Windows App Store. Instagram for Windows 10 Mobile will be in the Windows Phone Store. Have something to add to this story?

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