Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app. A preview of the updated app will be available for Windows
Insiders today. The Phone Link app allows iPhone users to connect their
devices to a Windows laptop or PC and, with the update, will let iPhone
users send and receive messages via iMessage, make and receive calls,
and see their phone’s notifications inside Windows 11.

Microsoft is using Bluetooth to link Windows devices to iPhones,
passing commands and messages to users’ Messages (iMessage) app. That
means you’ll be able to message contacts that also have iPhones
straight from your PC, but there are some limits. You won’t be able to
send pictures in messages or participate in group messages. As you can
see in the screenshot of the Phone Link app at the top of the story, PC
users will be shown their iMessages conversations in a simplified form.


https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618224/microsoft-windows-imessage-support-phone-link-ios-iphone

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In article <[email protected]>,
badgolferman <[email protected]> wrote:

Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app.

but what about those walls people keep saying exist?

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Am 01.03.23 um 12:51 schrieb nospam:

In article <[email protected]>,
badgolferman <[email protected]> wrote:

Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app.

but what about those walls people keep saying exist?

But the value of this $Microsoft$-app is extremely limited. Almost no
relevant features.

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Am 01.03.23 um 15:30 schrieb nospam:

In article <ttnm0j$1flc7$[email protected]>, Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]>
wrote:

Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app.

but what about those walls people keep saying exist?

But the value of this $Microsoft$-app is extremely limited. Almost no
relevant features.

imessage on windows is an extremely relevant and very useful. it's
something mac users have had all along and now windows users can
benefit from it too.

No it is not.
No group chats and no pictures?
*Useless*.

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In article <ttnm0j$1flc7$[email protected]>, Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]>
wrote:

Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app.

but what about those walls people keep saying exist?

But the value of this $Microsoft$-app is extremely limited. Almost no relevant features.

imessage on windows is an extremely relevant and very useful. it's
something mac users have had all along and now windows users can
benefit from it too.

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nospam wrote:

Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app.

but what about those walls people keep saying exist?

We tested this app on the Windows newsgroup, nospam, albeit without this
new feature that Steve, I'm sure, will test out thoroughly for us all.
<https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mobile.android/c/-MQM3UwUu-Q/m/VCjoOzNDAwAJ>

The walls then, from Microsoft (and Samsung, it turns out) were rather tall
and wide since the goal is to lock you into their own particular glue trap.

Now there are _two_ sets of corporate rat sticky trap with its walls.
Microsoft + Apple

All for something that nobody wants. :)
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nospam wrote:

imessage on windows is an extremely relevant and very useful. it's
something mac users have had all along and now windows users can
benefit from it too.

If you compare the primitive functionality of iMessage, nospam, to the functionality of a modern messenger, you wouldn't say that so confidently.

As always, without a single fact, you believe everything marketing has fed
you to believe about the Stone-age iMessage, hook... line... and sinker.

Want proof?

Simply compare the primitive iMessage to this modern messenger. <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.klinker.messenger>

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On 3/1/2023 3:18 AM, badgolferman wrote:

Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone
Link app. A preview of the updated app will be available for Windows
Insiders today. The Phone Link app allows iPhone users to connect their devices to a Windows laptop or PC and, with the update, will let iPhone
users send and receive messages via iMessage, make and receive calls,
and see their phone’s notifications inside Windows 11.

Microsoft is using Bluetooth to link Windows devices to iPhones,
passing commands and messages to users’ Messages (iMessage) app. That
means you’ll be able to message contacts that also have iPhones
straight from your PC, but there are some limits. You won’t be able to
send pictures in messages or participate in group messages. As you can
see in the screenshot of the Phone Link app at the top of the story, PC
users will be shown their iMessages conversations in a simplified form.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618224/microsoft-windows-imessage-support-phone-link-ios-iphone

Nice. I can already do that on Windows, with AirMessage, but it will be
nice to have that capability without having to have a Mac running the AirMessage server.

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On 3/1/2023 1:41 PM, badgolferman wrote:

Jolly Roger <[email protected]> wrote:

<snip>

What makes you think Apple is to blame rather than Microsoft?

Are you serious?

LOL, I had to scroll up to see who you were responding to but I was
thinking "it has to be one of our favorite trolls," and I was not
disappointed.

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