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Figure 5-10: Add your appointment’s date, start time, duration,
and other details.
Chatting through Messaging
A computing staple for decades, instant messaging
apps let you exchange messages with other online
friends. Unlike e-mail, instant messaging takes place,
well, instantly. The screen displays two boxes, and
you type messages back and forth to each other.
Messaging apps spawn a love/hate relationship. Some
people love the convenience and intimacy of keeping
in touch with faraway friends. Others hate feeling
trapped in an elevator and forced to make small talk.
But love it or hate it, the Windows Messaging app
handles both heartfelt conversations and idle chatter.
And even if your online friends use different messag-
ing services and programs, Windows Messaging can
swap messages with them all.
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