| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | federated instant messaging | 联盟即时消息 (Instant messaging with federated contacts) |
| comp., MS | instant messaging | 即时消息传递 (Pertaining to a message sent in real time through a network to a private chat area) |
| comp., MS | instant messaging | 即时消息 (A method of real-time communication over the Internet in which a sender types a message to one or more recipients and the recipient immediately receives the message in a chat area) |
| comp., MS | instant messaging session | 即时消息会话 (A real-time communication over the Internet in which a sender types a message to one or more recipients and the recipient(s) immediately receives the message in a pop-up window) |
| comp., MS | internal instant messaging | 内部即时消息 (Instant messaging with internal users) |