Microsoft plans to shut down Messenger (formerly Windows Live Messenger) on March 15, according to numerous reports. The concrete date comes after the company in late 2012 said the longstanding ...

Developers are now able to create widgets for their apps on Windows 11 and the first third-party one to hit your screen is...from Meta? In a blog post, Microsoft announced the Windows 11 Insider ...

Fresh off its stellar earnings report, which owed much to its remarkable mobile performance, Facebook is giving a little focus back to the desktop. On Thursday, Facebook unveiled its first Facebook ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More During Microsoft’s Surface event back in October 2015, the company also ...

Dropped instant messaging connections, loss of voice-over IP capabilities, spotty delivery of .Net Alerts services—all are problems users are having with Microsoft Corp.s Windows Messenger real-time ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Microsoft will be killing off its Windows Live Messenger chat service on March 15, transitioning its more than 100 million users to Skype. The company announced its plans to ...

Facebook Messenger Beta has a new option that helps stop double notifications. The feature allows you to disable the new-message chime in a browser when you also have Facebook Messenger Beta open. The ...

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.

Facebook has launched its first Messenger app for desktop, which is available now on MacOS and Windows. The social network first announced plans to release a Messenger desktop app at its F8 conference ...

Holiday shopping: We found the best Cyber Week deals for you. Since we can’t physically get together, this new norm of face-to-face communication through a screen may very well be our only way out of ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft Corp. is expected to make available to testers ...

The modern world has a messaging problem: There are just too darn many apps and almost no one can get away with using just one. In many ways, we’re right back where we were in the late ’90s and early ...