Microsoft Drops ‘Messaging Everywhere’ From Windows 10 Update

When it comes to cross platform messaging apps, Apple has iMessage while Google has Hangouts. Microsoft was also planning something similar with Windows 10 with the “Messaging Everywhere” feature. It was originally planned to be released with the Windows 10 Anniversary update, but it seems that is no longer the case.

The Windows 10 Anniversary update has been announced for the 2nd of August and it will be bringing a ton of new features, updates, and improvements to the Windows 10 platform, but like we said, the Messaging Everywhere feature will not be part of it. According to Microsoft, they have decided to improve on the Skype experience instead.

According to a post on the Windows Blog, Microsoft says, “The experience was well-received by Insiders however we believe we can deliver an even better experience through the Skype app. Because of this, we decided not to release this feature as part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update this summer.”

We suppose Skype has always been Microsoft’s cross platform messaging app, but the mobile version has always felt a bit clunky, at least compared to iMessage and Hangouts, but like Microsoft said they are hoping to deliver a better experience so we guess we’ll just have to wait and see what will be the result of this.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Computers
Tags: Apps, Microsoft, Skype, Windows, Windows 10