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That means they can no longer be built as complements to our offline lives. Facebook’s Workplace chat desktop apps offer screensharing so it seems reasonable that Messenger could add that option in the future.Ĭhat apps have gone from a way to stay in touch while apart or arrange meeting up to our only form of human connection for those in lock-down. The inability to show what you’re looking at prevents some business use cases, as well as phone social ones like co-browsing a photo album. Screensharing is the other major missing feature. It also doesn’t offer a way to easily share a URL that lets other people join a call, so it’s not useful for public webinars or social events. That means Messenger can’t support some of the new use cases that have emerged since people started to shelter-in-place due to COVID-19. Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of Facebook Messenger right now is that it can only handle up to 8 group video call participants, opposed to 100 or even 500 with Zoom. 3.5 Based on 6 user reviews Follow this app Developer website Messenger overview Messenger from Facebook, made for big screens and close connections.

#LAST VERSION OF MESSENGER FOR MAC FOR MAC#

Messenger briefly had a Windows app back in 2011 before it was scrapped until now. Download Messenger for Mac MacUpdate Home Internet Utilities Social Network Software Messenger Messenger Version 97.11.116 Official Messenger app from Facebook. Last month the Mac version was spotted in testing. But given the conference is cancelled due to coronavirus this year and users clearly wanted the desktop apps now, it made sense to launch them without a big press event. “We’re all looking for more ways to be together even while we’re physically apart” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes.įacebook originally announced the Messenger desktop apps at its F8 conference a year ago. They bring the same features as the browser version, but make it easier to keep your chat threads handy than having Messenger buried in one of many tabs. After seeing over a 100% increase in desktop browser audio and video calling, Messenger today releases its Mac and Windows desktop apps.

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I’ll be very curious to see if the VOIP and plug-ins available to PC users are included in the future features the company promises.Facebook Messenger is finally getting desktop apps almost 9 years after its debut. It will be a beautiful day if even the smallest amount of forward progress towards IM compatibility appears. Good idea on their part, but IM alerts for any RSS feed would be even better.Ĭoming soon: chat with Windows Live (MSN) users.

IM alerts for Yahoo! Calendar, Mail and Personals.

Visual notifications using the Growl system.

everybody but my ex-girlfriend can see that I’m available if I don’t want to talk to her.

Webcam support, compatible across PCs and Macs – though I personally IM when I don’t want to communicate intimately.

Avatars and animated emoticons, which I’m sure will appeal to a wide audience.

A new interface built in Cocoa, very OS X looking.

It’s hard for me to imagine using any single IM client on my Mac when I can use Adium and connect with all major IM systems at once. Its feature set is interesting, but it appears to lack two of the PC version’s most compelling qualities: VOIP and the growing library of plugins built on the recently released software development kit. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac was last updated in September, 2003. The Yahoo! IM team just released the 3.0 version of Yahoo! IM for Mac.