Mar 27, 2018 - As of Windows 10 version 1703 (Creators Update) or newer, you can now send and receive text messages and notifications on your Windows. Oct 20, 2015 Microsoft is releasing a new preview of its Windows 10 Mobile software today that allows Cortana to send texts from your PC. If you use a Windows 10. Jun 20, 2018 - Android Messages is now available on the web allowing you send and receive texts from your WIndows 10 PC. Here's how to use it.
In the video, Zac Bowden demonstrates how you can initiate an SMS message through. From there, the message is sent and received to a Windows 10 Mobile emulator. However, we should caution that although Windows 10 Insiders can initiate the text messaging they will be unable to receive the message.
The build of Windows 10 Mobile to get this to work is in the 1056x range and is not available for those running, which came out this week. None of that matters at least for now as instead we seemingly have confirmation that texting within Windows 10 devices is a feature coming shortly. However, there are still many questions that need to be answered, for example: • Is Cortana needed for this to work or could someone just use the Messaging and Phone apps? • Is this only for devices running Windows 10 – PC or Mobile – or would phones using Cortana e.g. IPhones and Android be able to participate as well? Obviously, there are many details yet to be filled in my Microsoft, but we like what we see.
The ability for all Windows 10 devices to send and receive texts – including eventually Xbox One – is a rather momentous event considering how important communication is these days.