Instagram's PWA comes to Microsoft Store with direct messaging

Now you can slide into your DMs from your PC.

What you need to know


The Instagram PWA is now available through the Microsoft Store.
The PWA is available as an update through Instagram's normal store listing.
This update also adds support for direct messaging on desktop.


We first caught wind that Instagram was set to bring its progressive web app (PWA) to the Microsoft Store in December, and now it's here. The latest update to the Instagram app for Windows 10 brings the PWA to PCs, which brings a couple of benefits. It also adds support for direct messages, which Instagram first announced were coming to desktop in January.

As a PWA, the app feels very much like using the website, but in a shell that feels like a native Windows 10 app. The move also means that new features and updates should make it to desktop PCs faster, as any change Instagram makes on the web should propogate to the PWA without much fuss. We've seen this in action with the Twitter app, which has seen frequent ...