Messenger on Facebook

We are pleased to announce Windows Live Messenger for Facebook. This new Facebook application allows you to easily contact your Facebook friends using Messenger! Try it out here.

Using the Windows Live Messenger for Facebook application you can:

• Expose your Messenger status to your Facebook friends
• Receive instant messages from friends that visit your Facebook profile page
• View your friends’ Messenger status on Facebook
• Send instant messages to your friends on Facebook that are using Messenger
• Easily add your Facebook friends to your Messenger contacts

The Windows Live Messenger for Facebook application is implemented using the currently available Windows Live Messenger Presence API and  the Windows Live Messenger IM Control.

Steve Gordon and Chris Parker talk about the implementation details of the Facebook application on Channel 9. Check it out here!

We are also looking for some great developers and testers, so if you find the work we’re doing exciting, definitely contact us for more information.

Thanks,
Terry Lentz
Lead Software Test Engineer, Messenger & Contacts Web Platform

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 01, 2008
  We are pleased to announce Windows Live Messenger for Facebook. This new Facebook application allows

• Anonymous
  August 19, 2008
  I am pleased to announce our first major upgrade to the Messenger Facebook application . Through development

• Anonymous
  August 27, 2008
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• Anonymous
  October 09, 2008
  hola quiero meterme al correo de facebook adio los quierom con el alma

• Anonymous
  February 09, 2009
  Hi i thot that this was a good way to contact urr facebook contaacts on facebook

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2009
  i love msn 2008 more then 2009 :)

• Anonymous
  March 27, 2009
  i love msn 2008 more then 2009

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2009
  Okay it's looking a lot better now.  What about some sort of federation with farcebook chat?  I guess that's on their end, though.

• Anonymous
  August 09, 2009
  Is there actually any point in this? It doesn't appear to sign you into messenger so you can chat with people who haven't added the application and now that webmessenger has been replaced by something that isn't available if you're not using IE you would have to actually open messenger to chat with people - no good if you're in an internet café. That leaves this app as just a competitor to facebook chat using an MS-designed backend, which people have to add (and no-one will bother, because everyone is already on facebook chat by default) making this totally useless. I'd love to be corrected, beacuse better integration between the two would be really useful (why maintain two online profiles separatley when you could update both st the same time?) but that seems a long way off. Unfortunately Microsoft might just have to accept that Windows live won't be able to compete with facebook...

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2009
  sarah i need help to understand this facebook 050

• Anonymous
  December 11, 2009
  sarah i need help to understand this facebook 050

• Anonymous
  December 31, 2009
  I second Chris' comments.  I see no point to this app other than to update your status message from within facebook.

• Anonymous
  October 19, 2010
  what do you do when someone is using facebook to haerrASE you this is happening to mysons family by jeremy carpenter

• Anonymous
  November 01, 2010
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  November 01, 2010
  i need help to understand this facebook