Microsoft gets Windows Live Messenger for iPhone, iPad touch users
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 17:53 IST   |    3 Comments
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Bangalore: Finally, Microsoft has launched an IM app for the iPhone, just a few hours before the launch of Apple's fourth version of iPhone operating system (iOS4). Windows Live Messenger for iPhone includes many key features that users expect from an IM app, reports Jessica Dolcourt of cnet. The new IM app includes features like social networking and e-mail. It provides one screen to Windows Live helping users to update their status. There is also a button that takes the users to their e-mail inbox. Enabling the Windows Live Messenger for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Microsoft has gained its latest milestone by serving the application to customers from iTunes app Store. There is another feature in the app that enables the users to add friends, to chat and to send e-mails. The chat screen allows open conversation and helps the users to switch among them. Microsoft has also enabled push notifications, which will alert the user to new IMs when the app is closed. As long as one of the chat persons has connected it's Live account to other social networking sites, the other person will be able to see what they are sharing on sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, among others on the social stream screen which greets users to load the application. There are options in the last screen allowing users to upload photos, take new ones and view their windows Live Gallery with it. In addition, the screen also enables users to tag photographs. There are some features that need to be materialized. Though the app has triple checking credentials, logging off, signing back in, and reinstalling the app with some more reboots thrown in, the app shows the user as Someone on Windows Live, despite having uploaded photos of the users. The app is designed to play nice with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, requiring iOS 3.0 or later. It offers four buttons for its four modes: Social updates, buddy list, chats, and photos. Messenger is the fourth application to be released by Microsoft. On the whole, it is a simple iPhone IM app. By installing Windows Live Messenger on their Apple devices, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users can easily become part of the world's largest instant messaging network. The IM client is, available for download free of charge, just as the desktop variant. Windows Live Messenger for iPhone from iTunes can be now downloaded , or read more on the Windows Live team blog.

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