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Microsoft Killing Off Nokia's Windows Phone Apps
jfruh writes: As Nokia's smartphone division becomes more fully absorbed into Microsoft, the company is cleaning house and ending some apps and services that Nokia had developed specifically for Windows Phone. Lumia Storyteller, Lumia Beamer, Photobeamer, and Lumia Refocus are photo and video apps that integrate with online services, and those services will be shutting down on October 30. Microsoft says its to better commit resources to work on the mobile version of Windows 10, which is coming soon, but not all the features of the canceled services will appear in the new OS.
In Windows 7 and 8 you can actually prevent the functionality from being installed by blocking the "updates". In Windows 10 you cannot do that, and you can't turn it all the way off.
If it weren't for that, I would have upgraded to Win10 already
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Microsoft bought Nokia for their patents. Any other money is just chump change.
The patents were not included in the deal. Microsoft didn't actually buy Nokia, they bought Nokia's handset business. The patents remained with Nokia.
Nokia had the best hardware in the world but a terrible outdated OS. Then Microsoft came and killed the best hardware and replaced the OS with an even worse one.