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Microsoft is sending out notices to users of its MSN Health & Fitness, MSN Travel and MSN Food & Drink apps for all platforms – Windows, iOS and Android – that the company is planning to discontinue offering those apps.
More third-party developers are being roped in by Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) in its bid to develop next-generation apps for its fitness-monitoring wristband, comprising Microsoft Health Cloud APIs and Microsoft Band Web Tiles.
All of the apps will be killed off on whatever platforms they ran on: iOS, Android, and the Windows operating systems. Currently, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will link to the Travel app to give you details about upcoming flights and trips.
Microsoft’s Health Cloud APIs have a feature to enhance a user’s own app as it permit developers to get fitness data from Microsoft’s cloud.
The Photosynth.net website will continue to be maintained, and users will continue to be supported. Microsoft representatives didn’t have a response to that question at press time.
The past few weeks have been filled with many news coming from Microsoft, as the company has unveiled a new strategy for Windows Phone, announced massive job cuts from its Nokia mobile phone business and has been busy with frequent Windows 10 builds.
Unfortunately, MSN Health & Fitness is an excellent standalone app, tapping into the motion-sensing capabilities of most modern Lumia phones to provide a bare-bones fitness tracker for those who don’t want to spend an additional $100 or more on a dedicated device. Thereafter, Microsoft brought out a comprehensive software development kit (SDK) for the Microsoft Health app, enabling developers frame apps exclusively for the band. This week, the Band received an update that allows it to track golf swings.
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The MSN Travel app just culls information from the Web site. Apps could also use the fitness and biometric data a user stored in the cloud to customize workouts. But it still seems like Microsoft is taking a perfectly good app and getting rid of it for no good reason.
