Facebook Messenger For Windows Brings Chat & Ticker in a Native Windows 7 App

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While social networking mostly involves the web and mobile apps, Facebook is looking into making communication more convenient, by launching a desktop application that will offer easy access to a user’s Facebook chat and ticker.

Facebook is currently running a private beta of its desktop-bound messenger for a few, select users. The desktop client provides access to Chat and Ticker straight from Windows via a taskbar-bound app. Facebook wants to gauge interest and usefulness of the app, which provides easy access to friends and their activities even without keeping a browser window open.

Facebook earlier released a standalone Messenger application for various mobile platforms, including Android, BlackBerry and iOS, which gave access to Facebook chats and messages without the need to launch the full-fledged mobile Facebook client.

Random participants to the desktop messenger are being notified via a prompt on their Facebook home pages. There is no public download link for the Windows app, which is only compatible with Windows 7, and there’s no word on how long Facebook intends to keep the app in beta. But what’s clear at this point is that a desktop app for a user’s real-time information such as chats and ticker activities are the most useful when kept running in a dedicated window or application, which is not dependent on having the Facebook website running in a browser window or tab.

Facebook has not made Messenger for other platforms available, although a release for the Mac and possibly other platforms is likely to be underway if the Facebook Messenger for Windows 7 gains enough traction among Facebook users.