{"id":23465,"date":"2012-03-06T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T13:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=23465"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:52:11","slug":"facebook-messenger-for-windows-out-of-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-messenger-for-windows-out-of-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger for Windows out of beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-messenger-for-windows-out-of-beta\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23469\" title=\"Facebook Messenger\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/facebook-messenger-para-windows-7-02-100x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>After several months of beta testing, the final version of <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger-for-windows.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Facebook Messenger for Windows<\/strong><\/a> has now been released. Facebook Messenger for Windows is the official program for Facebook that allows you to chat with your contacts from your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook Messenger for Windows not only lets you communicate with your Facebook contacts but also gives you access to your <strong>news feed and message notifications<\/strong> giving you access to all the essential tools of the Facebook social network.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The Facebook Messenger for Windows interface is very clear and divided into two separate windows. One is dedicated to contacts and feeds like the right column of Facebook and the other opens chats. Any notifications appear as pop-ups on your desktop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23467\" title=\"facebook-messenger-for-windows\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/facebook-messenger-for-windows.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/facebook-messenger-for-windows.png 700w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/03\/facebook-messenger-for-windows-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that although this is the first <strong>official <\/strong>Facebook desktop app, there are already several programs that allow you to chat with Facebook contacts including <strong><a title=\"Digsby\" href=\"http:\/\/digsby.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Digsby<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a title=\"Trillian Astra\" href=\"http:\/\/trillian-astra.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trillian Astra<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a title=\"Nimbuzz\" href=\"http:\/\/nimbuzz.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nimbuzz<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a title=\"Skype\" href=\"http:\/\/skype.softonic.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skype<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of beta testing, the final version of Facebook Messenger for Windows has now been released. Facebook Messenger for Windows is the official program for Facebook that allows you to chat with your contacts from your desktop. Facebook Messenger for Windows not only lets you communicate with your Facebook contacts but also gives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-messenger-for-windows-out-of-beta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook Messenger for Windows out of beta&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2445],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-23465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook-messenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333897,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23465\/revisions\/333897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23465"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=23465"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=23465"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=23465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}