1 year ago
95 Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Source: Microsoft
Microsoft announced Monday that the latest mentation of Phone Link for Windows 11 PCs tin person notifications, nonstop texts and reply calls from a user's paired iPhone.
Most Americans usage iPhones, and Apple's integration crossed its products has helped its Mac concern instrumentality marketplace stock from Windows PCs successful caller years. Apple accounted for astir 10% of planetary PC shipments past year, with the remainder being overwhelmingly Windows machines, according to IDC.
Microsoft's determination could destruct a obstruction for machine buyers who different would person picked a Mac. Phone Link antecedently lone worked with Android phones.
The Phone Link bundle doesn't person astir arsenic galore features arsenic Apple's Messages for Mac. It works done Bluetooth, according to The Verge, and requires the iPhone to person Microsoft's "Link to Windows" app installed.
A Phone Link-enabled Windows PC gets notifications from the user's iPhone and shows the messages successful Windows. It doesn't enactment radical texts done iMessage and doesn't let users to nonstop photos oregon videos, either. Phone Link tin lone show messages that it sends oregon receives, truthful a idiosyncratic who sent immoderate texts connected their telephone won't spot that portion of their connection past successful the Windows app.
"Messaging diagnostic is constricted by iOS," the institution said successful Monday's announcement. An Apple typical didn't respond to a petition for comment.
