Join David Rivers for an in-depth discussion in this video Chatting with Messaging, part of Windows 8 Release Preview First Look.
If you're comfortable with instant messaging then you'll like this next app,…Messaging right there on the Start screen.…When we click it you'll automatically be logged in as yourself, you'll see…your current status set to Online, and from here you may even see some…messages waiting for you, in this case we're seeing one from Microsoft itself…all about Windows Messaging.…So in this case we can chat with friends who are using different messaging…services all in one place right here from our Messaging tool.…
And when you sign into Windows you automatically get signed in to the messaging…services that you are connected to.…So to start a new thread all we have to do is find somebody, notice down the…left-hand side we can add friends to chat with. They can be on Facebook or we…could click Add more right from here, and you can see Facebook shows up here for…add an account, just hit the Back button here. Let's right-click anywhere at an…empty spot to open up the App bar that appears down across the bottom, from here…
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