NBW-Facebook makes it easier to use its short message service WhatsApp on Windows computers and Macs. How already indicated a few days ago, the Messengernun also depends on the computer: Since Wednesday, you can download apps for both operating systems, reflect the chats and messages from your smartphone.

Until now, for only a web version, they had to be used via the browser. Now the program is run directly on the devices. However, not at all: to my computer for an operating system from Windows 8 or Mac OS X 10.9 be installed as WhatsApp announced in a blog entry. Users of Windows 7 and older Macs are thus left out. You are required to rely on the browser

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The client works as the browser version. The users identify themselves by scanning a code on the screen of the computer with the smartphone app. Thereafter, the two devices are coupled together. Both need for Internet access, the chats will be synchronized between them. That is well: If both devices are not in the same room, anyone accessing one of the two has the chats of the other device read along - or even write yourself. On public computers should therefore use the program in any way.

WhatsApp has over one billion users worldwide and has displaced many of them on the phone the SMS completely. With the jump on the computer the Facebook daughter exacerbated the rivalry with overarching alternatives such as Microsoft's Skype or iMessage to Apple devices. to send along with the recently introduced option documents, Whatsapp is increasingly expanded the working tool that aims to establish itself not only on personal devices but also in the business use.

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