Microsoft Releases Live Messenger Mobile App for iPhone, iPad
Microsoft said Monday it is now shipping a Windows Live Messenger application that's free via the iTunes App Store and works on Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
The announcement is part of Microsoft's plans to bolster its mobile strategy and to convince both consumers and enterprise IT staffers that the company is not so far behind competitors like Apple and Google(NASDAQ: GOOG) that it can't catch up in the mobile marketplace.
For instance, the software giant delivered a In early June, Apple announced that Bing will be "one of the search engine choices within Safari on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and within the Safari browser on the Mac and PC," according to a
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FurlMicrosoft claimed in February that it has more than The Windows Live Messenger application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is available for "We've been working hard to make this app streamlined and simple to use, while preserving all the core functionality that you're used to in Messenger," Ye Gu, group program manager for Windows Live Mobile, said in a "In order to make it as familiar as possible to iPhone users, we adopted the native style of the iPhone for much of the user interface," he added.
Stuart J. Johnston is a contributing writer at
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