Microsoft Messaging

This article is about the instant messaging client in Windows 8 and 10. For the email client also known as Microsoft Exchange Client, see Windows Messaging.

Messaging (also known as Microsoft Messaging, and as of recently, Windows Operator Messages) is an instant messaging Universal Windows Platform app for Windows 10.

Messaging

Developer(s)	Microsoft
Stable release	March 2025 Update (5.2503.4003.0) / March 2025; 2 months ago (2025-03)
Operating system	Windows 10 Discontinued: Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows Phone 7, 8 and 8.1, Windows 10 Mobile
Size	29.3 MB
Available in	65 languages
List of languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla (Bangladesh), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, French (Canada), Galician, German, Greek, Hausa (Latin), Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kiswahili, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Latin, Serbia), Slovak, Slovenian (Slovenia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese

Its mobile version for Windows 10 Mobile allowed SMS, MMS and RCS messaging. The desktop version is restricted to showing SMS messages sent via Skype, and billing SMS message from an LTE operator.^[1][2]

As of recently, the app was refocused into a SMS data plan app, where your mobile operator sends messages about your data plan, this is due to the functionality of the app switching to Skype. It was also partially renamed to Windows Operator Messages.

Due to Skype closing in May 2025, Windows Operator Messages will stop working as it uses the platform, the fate of the app itself is unknown.

External links

• Send a text message — Microsoft Support