New blow for Microsoft's application store. The most popular of social networks has announced that it will soon withdraw its Facebook desktop application.
Network members who connect from the desktop app have been notified by message, reports MSPowerUser. "Since you are using the Facebook desktop application for Windows, we wanted to make sure that you are aware that this application will stop working on Friday, February 28, 2020. You can still access all of your friends and your favorite Facebook functions in you connecting via your browser to www.facebook.com ”, warns Facebook.
In fact, the users of the application will have to turn to the website of the social network to continue to benefit from the news of their contacts and friends. The Facebook desktop application will be removed from the Microsoft Store on February 28 and will stop working on the computers on which it is installed.
Facebook said in its message that users can still continue to communicate by private message from the new Messenger desktop application. This will remain available on the Microsoft Store after February 28. It should undergo some changes, following the disappearance of the Facebook office app.
This announcement should only reach a small number of Facebook users. In fact, few people connected via the desktop application of the social network. The web version and the mobile application are preferred.
Soon the end of the Microsoft Store?
Thought to be the main gateway to downloading applications and software, the Microsoft Store no longer seems to make anyone dream. If it had gained popularity thanks to the Windows Phone, the shutdown of the latter pushed the Microsoft application store to fall into disuse.
The company seems to be gradually getting used to the idea. It recently announced that it will close specific versions of the Microsoft Store intended for businesses and educational establishments on June 30.
The withdrawal of big names such as Facebook should accelerate its decline.
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