The app for Windows 10 Mobile also gets the same changes that are included in Windows 10 for desktop.
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The launch will put to rest months of delays and troubles for Microsoft as it looks to complete its dream of having a billion devices running Windows 10. However, with Here Maps set to be pulled from the Windows 10 store on March 29 and Microsoft Build set for the day after, we should hear more soon. The HERE Maps, as well as various other HERE apps have been quite popular in the recent times, and the company had recently updated all their apps to be used in the Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 OS.
However, the firm will continue to pour in critical bug fixes to those apps that are now installed in Windows 8 phones. The company would have to redevelop its apps for Windows 10 post that and it seems the platform is not worth the effort at the moment, which is why it made a decision to remove its apps altogether.
Microsoft has revealed that inaccurate information, which had lead people to believe the computing giant had stopped accepting Bitcoin, had been posted on its online store’s FAQ in error. The brand was featured on many Asha and Lumia series handsets in the past. If it wanted to continue supporting Windows 10 without that workaround, it had to rewrite its apps “from the ground up”.
Offering high definition maps combined with cloud technology for both businesses and individual users, HERE was originally owned by Nokia and was purchased by a consortium of premium automobile manufacturers like Audi, BMW and Mercedes in August a year ago.
The company has however said that “the essence of the HERE apps lives on in the Windows Maps app”.
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Here Maps is one of the better non-Google navigation apps on the market.
