October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
27h 33m
English
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Chapter 17
Chatting with Windows 8
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using the Messaging app
Installing Windows Live Messenger
Chatting online
In the earliest days of personal computing, people communicated with others mostly by e-mail. Today, people have many different ways to communicate online in addition to e-mail. Online chat is one of those ways. With a chat program, people can communicate in real time by sending text messages back and forth to one another. All it takes is a chat program and an account with an online chat provider.
Windows 8 includes an app called Messaging that you can use to send and receive instant messages to different messaging systems, including Windows Messenger and Facebook. Like most Windows 8 apps, Messaging is a fairly simple, easy-to-use app. As such, it doesn’t have the same level of features as some other messaging apps. So this chapter also covers Windows Live Messenger, a messaging app you can use in place of, or in addition to, Messaging.
Windows Live Messenger is an add-on program from Microsoft and part of the Windows Live Essentials family of applications, which you can add to your computer and use to communicate with others online in a variety of ways. For example, you can chat online, send text messages, share photos, and even hold a video or audio conference. This chapter offers a brief overview of Windows Live Messenger to get you started. We start with a quick overview of the technology and then explain how you can download and install Windows Live ...
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