Online Text Messaging Question

January 15, 2021, 06:19 PM

I currently run Chrome on my desktop computer and use a Chrome extension called "Messages for the Web" that allows me to open a window to monitor (Send and Receive) text messages from my cellular acct/phone. Very convenient to keep up with text messages here when working at my desk as opposed to fishing my phone out of my pocket. I also type far faster on a regular computer keyboard (given the size of my paws) than I do on my phone's tiny keypad.

My questions for the collective here...Is there a Microsoft version of this utility that works with the MS Edge browser? Is there some other way to integrate text messaging into a Microsoft operating environment?

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Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter

January 15, 2021, 09:15 PM

Rey HRH

I googled messages for web edge and this is one of the hits https://microsoftedge.microsof...fdgkmnbnmiagpclakafd

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

January 15, 2021, 09:20 PM

bald1

You really don't need an app to send text messages from your computer to phones. A quick search will show you how. Quite easy really.

January 15, 2021, 09:24 PM

ArtieS

The "your phone" app in Windows10 does this. I love it.

"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."

Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.

January 15, 2021, 09:30 PM

maladat

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
I currently run Chrome on my desktop computer and use a Chrome extension called "Messages for the Web" that allows me to open a window to monitor (Send and Receive) text messages from my cellular acct/phone. Very convenient to keep up with text messages here when working at my desk as opposed to fishing my phone out of my pocket. I also type far faster on a regular computer keyboard (given the size of my paws) than I do on my phone's tiny keypad.

My questions for the collective here...Is there a Microsoft version of this utility that works with the MS Edge browser? Is there some other way to integrate text messaging into a Microsoft operating environment?

If you just want to use Messages for Web to send/receive texts via an Android phone, I don't think you need a Chrome extension at all. You can just go to messages.google.com/web in any browser.

January 15, 2021, 09:35 PM

bald1

Read this. Works great from any email client sending a text message to a phone.

No app. No Google. No Microsoft. All platforms.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...-your-email-account/

January 15, 2021, 09:46 PM

bigdeal

quote:
Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I googled messages for web edge and this is one of the hits https://microsoftedge.microsof...fdgkmnbnmiagpclakafd

I think that's the ticket. Appears to work just like the Messages for the Web extension in Chrome. Nothing else to install on the phone or desktop, just add to the browser and scan the provided QR code. Cool.

I asked this for a friend since I couldn't find him an answer online. Just passed it along, and he should be very happy. Thanks everyone.

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Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter

January 15, 2021, 09:52 PM

bigdeal

quote:
Originally posted by bald1:
Read this. Works great from any email client sending a text message to a phone.

No app. No Google. No Microsoft. All platforms.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...-your-email-account/

That's cool, but way too slow and cumbersome to use on the fly. I also like having a window/tab open in Chrome sitting next to my Gmail window/tab. When a message comes in I just change tabs, type a response, hit send, and jump back to the tab I was working in. Easy peasy and very quick.

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Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter

January 15, 2021, 10:57 PM

bald1

quote:
Originally posted by bigdeal:
quote:
Originally posted by bald1:
Read this. Works great from any email client sending a text message to a phone.

No app. No Google. No Microsoft. All platforms.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...-your-email-account/
That's cool, but way too slow and cumbersome to use on the fly. I also like having a window/tab open in Chrome sitting next to my Gmail window/tab. When a message comes in I just change tabs, type a response, hit send, and jump back to the tab I was working in. Easy peasy and very quick.

It's fast and easy if you preload your contacts in your email address book with their MSM text address. That way I have a choice to email OR text them from my email client. FAST and EASY!

January 15, 2021, 10:57 PM

Aeteocles

quote:
Originally posted by bald1:
Read this. Works great from any email client sending a text message to a phone.

No app. No Google. No Microsoft. All platforms.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...-your-email-account/

Yeah, the problem with the email-to-text method is that it behaves like email. Sometimes you need to send text in a chat-like string, bits at a time, back and forth.

I use Google's Messages for Web, and it's browser agnostic as far as I know.

January 15, 2021, 11:13 PM

bald1

quote:
Originally posted by Aeteocles:
Sometimes you need to send text in a chat-like string, bits at a time, back and forth.

As a septuagenarian, I don't communicate like that nor, for what it's worth, do I text stuff like "U OK".