{"id":164576,"date":"2016-05-11T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=164576"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:58:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T05:58:55","slug":"whatsapp-desktop-app-launched-for-windows-and-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164576-whatsapp-desktop-app-launched-for-windows-and-mac.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp desktop app launched for Windows and Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a desktop application for Windows and Mac computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone,\u201d said WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The desktop app is available for Windows 8 and newer, and OS X 10.9 and newer.<\/p>\n<p>Because the app runs natively on your desktop, WhatsApp said you will have support for native desktop notifications and better keyboard shortcuts.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp for Mac or Windows PCs may be downloaded <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">from the app\u2019s website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/WhatsApp-for-Windows-screenshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-164578 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/WhatsApp-for-Windows-screenshot-640x403.jpg\" alt=\"WhatsApp for Windows screenshot\" width=\"640\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/WhatsApp-for-Windows-screenshot-640x403.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/WhatsApp-for-Windows-screenshot-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on WhatsApp<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/164508-free-whatsapp-on-fnb-connect.html\"><strong>Free WhatsApp on FNB Connect<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/164084-why-brazil-is-trying-to-block-whatsapp.html\"><strong>Why Brazil is trying to block WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/164064-vodacom-and-mtns-big-whatsapp-problem-they-dont-know-what-they-are.html\"><strong>Vodacom and MTN\u2019s big WhatsApp problem \u2013 they don\u2019t know what they are<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/164000-making-whatsapp-pay-vodacom-and-mtn-will-chase-away-investors.html\"><strong>Making WhatsApp pay Vodacom and MTN will chase away investors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/columns\/157611-this-is-why-south-africa-fell-in-love-with-whatsapp.html\"><strong>This is why South Africa fell in love with WhatsApp<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has launched a desktop client for its messaging service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,2594],"class_list":["post-164576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164584,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164576\/revisions\/164584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}