Fresh from reporting gains that were leading, Facebook on Thursday rolled out programs tailored to Microsoft’s latest operating system for its Messenger in addition to the social network and Instagram services.

“These new programs will load fast and readily within Windows and have the most up to date characteristics.”

Microsoft has been working to adjust to lifestyles that have transferred away from the types of packed applications on which its empire was constructed to relying on tablet computers or smartphones to get data or computing services hosted in the Internet cloud.

The Redmond, Washington-based technology expert has also been fighting to get traction for Windows-powered smartphones in a market controlled by handsets running on Google or Apple -backed Android operating systems.

Microsoft last week reported a 25 percent drop in quarterly profits as the business

The results revealed a two percent fall in earnings from Windows, the PC operating system which has been the center for Microsoft for years, despite a bigger fall in PC sales.

By comparison, California-based Facebook on Wednesday reported earnings that demonstrated it’s booming, with the majority of its sales coming from members getting the top social network from cellular devices.

Facebook has been carefully positive about the prospect of moneymaking marketing on its popular services like Live, Messenger and Instagram real time video streaming.