Messenger for Windows 10

Communication — A native Windows 10 application bringing Facebook Messenger to desktop computers and tablets

CommunicationDefensible · network effects (strong)freemiumest. 2016

● Verified live

Verdict from HTTP liveness real

last probed Aug 24, 2026

Pulse 40.0 · 1/4

40.0

Pulse Index

1/4 families · real

0.0

30-day Δ

pulse momentum · real

HTTP probes

liveness history · real

Functional tags

observed attributes · real

Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real

17 probes · Jun 16, 2026 → Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only

Liveness probereal

alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 2254 ms

Developer tractionchecked · none

No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.

Press & sentimentchecked · none

No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.

Web footprintreal

resolved host
apps.microsoft.comedge
direct originserver
not reportedTranco rank
unranked

Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Messenger for Windows 10's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity

Company	Basis	Overlap	Pulse	30d Δ	Status
Chuteproductivity	tag-overlap	83%	40.0	—	● live
Pushbullet for Maccommunication	similar	80%	30.4	+30.4	● live
ScreenBloomhardware	tag-overlap	80%	16.0	0.0	→ redirected
Notiproductivity	tag-overlap	80%	40.0	+7.2	● live
Lovebirdcommunication	similar	80%	40.0	0.0	● live
AndroMeldproductivity	tag-overlap	80%	35.2	—	● live
KakaoTalk for Maccommunication	similar	71%	40.0	0.0	● live
Microsoft Phone Linkproductivity	tag-overlap	71%	40.0	0.0	● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes

Business modelfreemium

Liveness tierfading

Competitive alternativesnone linked

Open sourceNo

Public APINo

Free tierNo

Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

1 disclosed funding round on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes

PROBED	HTTP	ORIGIN → RESOLVED	SERVER	MS	VERDICT
2026-08-24 12:22Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	3083	alive
2026-08-11 14:31Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	1969	alive
2026-08-11 14:30Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	1909	alive
2026-08-09 00:11Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	3786	alive
2026-08-05 20:03Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	2778	alive
2026-07-30 19:19Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	2302	alive
2026-07-26 15:59Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	1429	alive
2026-07-18 12:45Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	2044	alive
2026-07-12 18:09Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	2887	alive
2026-07-04 14:04Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	2177	alive
2026-06-23 15:14Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	2034	alive
2026-06-21 18:17Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	1460	alive
2026-06-21 18:17Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	1766	alive
2026-06-20 07:44Z	200	microsoft.com → apps.microsoft.com	—	1933	alive

Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.

Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Messenger for Windows 10 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/messenger-for-windows-10 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.