{"id":51671,"date":"2013-09-26T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=51671"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:08:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:08:38","slug":"is-blackberry-messenger-coming-to-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/is-blackberry-messenger-coming-to-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Is BlackBerry Messenger coming to Windows?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While BlackBerry<\/strong><\/a> is seriously struggling, shedding workers and canceling financial reports, BlackBerry Messenger<\/strong> is still a hugely popular service, as the clamor for the iOS and Android versions<\/a> has shown.<\/p>\n

At BlackBerry Jam in Hong Kong, attendees saw a projection of BBM for Windows, and the image quickly spread through Twitter. Mistakenly many people now think there is a Windows desktop BlackBerry Messenger app<\/strong>, but that is not what the image shows.<\/p>\n

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\nThis BBM on Windows desktop only happened when a BlackBerry smartphone was connected to a Windows PC. It allows you to control BBM from your Windows desktop, but doesn’t function as a standalone app. Furthermore, this was all a proof of concept demo, according to NotAnalog, and currently BlackBerry has no plans to develop the idea.<\/p>\n

The popularity of BBM for desktop on Twitter proves it’s something users would like. This is no surprise considering the success of LINE<\/strong><\/a> and VIBER<\/strong><\/a> on desktop, and the clamor of user requests for a WhatsApp desktop version<\/strong><\/a>. However, like WhatsApp, BBM’s connection to a phone number is a tricky barrier to developing a standalone desktop app.
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