Download Messenger for Android

Android smartphone owners on Monday will therefore be able to download for free the first official client Windows Live Messenger, which will talk by phone from his writing with his usual contacts. The application, which apparently uses the aesthetics of the PC version also allows to manage contacts (add, block, etc..), As well as access to its list of custom emoticons. It also supports the updating of the status or profile picture, and of course the display of information published by its contacts.

Deliberately simple, to WLM Android is based on two tabs. The first, which is the main window of the PC client Windows Live Messenger displays the contact list, with user groups and online presence. The second lists all the conversations involved in recent accommodating several correspondents. Direct access to the mobile version of Hotmail Web mail is integrated with the interface.

Light, weighing in downloading less than 1 MB, the application is compatible with all devices with Android 1.6 or a later version, up to 3.0 dedicated touch pads, which will therefore benefit from a appropriate display. She knows also take advantage of push notifications, and multitasking.

It is however silent on the more advanced features such as audio chat (VoIP) and video conferencing. "In this area, we are rather in a partnership approach with operators, justifies Roumagère Benoit, marketing manager for mobile services at Microsoft France," we do not want to risk penalizing the user by offering a service that could he argues surprises on their bill. "

File transfer or synchronization with Windows Live services like Skydrive are also conspicuously absent in this first version, which ultimately focuses on the fundamentals of WLM: chat and contact management. However, several developments are expected, Microsoft promises, starting for example by managing simultaneous connection to the service from a PC and a smartphone Android.
With 22 million users of its Windows Live services, Microsoft must logically accompany the democratization of mobile usage, which is why these raids more frequencies on newsstands application competitors such as Google or Apple. The iPhone experience would have revealed this as the most conclusive, since according to Benoit Roumagère, WLM application offered on the App Store had been downloaded more than 1.5 million times over the last six months of 2010.

After the iPhone, favored because of its exceptional popularity, Microsoft has consistently emphasized its own platform end of 2010 since it arrived in October as the first Windows phone terminals 7. Android is now the "third major pillar" of the market, where it should exist. For other platforms and systems, the publisher said the moment will be limited to agreements with mobile operators, who often equip their terminals WLM client.