I'd much prefer Outlook integration. It's about time IMAP or similar was supported. It was would be so useful to be able to mix e-mail and Facebook messages together in one program. All my e-mail/calendar/contacts communication is done through Outlook but I've got to open Facebook.com to send a Facebook Message, which I do for 99% of my friends (family it's e-mails).
Contrary to its name it's not Facebook Messenger but Facebook Chat. The Messages link just opens the website, by the time you've done all that you may as well have gone to the site, given that Messages just opens the site anyway.
There's also no way of sending a new message, other than clicking on their name through Chat. Maybe that's the point. There's also limit on how much of your message/chat history is displayed when opening a chat session with someone. It doesn't go back to the start.
Using Facebook Messenger on Android and it opens Facebook Messages. Which whilst the two are connected, it's approach is different. Facebook Messages is more like e-mail, Facebook Chat is an IM tool.
I like that you can dock it to the left though. It's useful for Widescreen monitors.
Facebook Chat works well in Windows Live Messenger 2011 already, it's just Chat, there's no Message support.
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