Microsoft integrated Facebook chat into Hotmail

Microsoft first announced Facebook chat in Hotmail as a part of a number of updates last September, but the feature was only activated in the U.S., U.K., France, Brazil, Germany, and Russia. Today, the company announced that it would be available worldwide, wherever both Hotmail and Facebook were accessible.

Hotmail considers this as a big triumph in the competition against Google's Gmail e-mail service. "While Gmail beat us to bringing their own chat into the inbox, we have now gone a step further and brought both our own chat and Facebook chat into your inbox," is written in the Microsoft's Official Blog.

If  you're a Hotmail user and haven't yet tried out the feature, all you need to do is connect your Facebook account to Windows Live and check the box for "Chat with my Facebook friends in Messenger."
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