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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.
Microsoft bought Nokia for their patents. Any other money is just chump change.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The last part of the exection in MS long history of Embrace, Extend, Extuinguish
Well, it is a good thing that their strategy was not Embrace, Extend and Spell-check.
But seriously, this has absolutely nothing to do with the E-E-E adage. Embrace does not mean buy; there was nothing here that they Extended; and shutting down non-profitable or under-used services of an acquisition is not Extinguishing them in the manner of that saying. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is all about corrupting something that is a standard (or like one) so that it loses its usefulness as a cross-platform system. This case is just about pulling the plug on their own servers. It affects nobody other than their own customers.
Just because this is Microsoft that we are talking about doesn't mean that you have to trot out that old meme, "Developers, Developers, Developers" or even "Monkey-boy".
In general, this is what I hate about the mobile ecosystem. Everything is so tenuous and could be gone tomorrow. For some things it makes sense (e.g. a chat service), and for some things it would become useless over time (a mapping/navigation application would devolve as roads change and would be less compelling wthout traffic data) and then there are things that make zero sense to be bound by the ongoing presence of servers (a lot of single player games will keel over when one of a set of companies hangs it up). We have moved so far into not having control of our favorite software it's depressing.
I have a problem even with steam. Ebook stores.. you kidding me. What happens when they go bankrupt or get their division bought out. Services end. Otherwise I'd be spending 80 percent of my money on such content. I buy something... I want access to it forever. I want to be able to resell it although it all likelihood I never would being the digital hoarder that I am. I still have the boxes and some of the better manuals from games I bought back in the 90's.
You DO know that linking to your other posts (which links to your other posts and so on) like you are some sort of "authority" to be cited makes you look like a total nutter, yes?
And MSFT didn't have shit to do with the Yahoo/Moz deal, that was CEO...#3? May have been #4, in either case they announced the second the MSFT deal ended the Yahoo Search was coming back and AFAIK they have not changed those plans. Oh and neither MSFT nor Yahoo has had diddly squat to do with the clusterfuck that is the Moz UI changes, any time spent on their forums would tell you they devs think that shit is hip and they really have no fucks to give as to what you the user think!
It is THIS that is killing Moz, the constant UI changes, ignoring the users, and the final nail in the coffin I predict will be them tossing the extension framework which honestly was the only thing keeping what few users were left on Moz products and nobody chose that shit but the elitist ego monster devs at Moz. Not a conspiracy, not any kind of "master plan", its the same disease that made all these companies pour billions into fugly as fuck flat shaded UI messes...hipster developers.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
The percentages on the Register for 10 last week were 5%. 8.0 has that. 8.1 has twice that. XP had about the same as 8.1. The rest was basically 7.
And given that it's a free upgrade from 7 or 8, that's pretty telling even at this early stage.
To be honest, why would you upgrade from 7? It's still in support and still runs EXACTLY the same set of programs on EXACTLY the same hardware. There is no real selling point to 8 or 10.
P.S. Hate me all you like, I've deployed Microsoft networks as a living for the last 15 years. Some things they do are good. Others are absolutely shite. Disagree with my opinion, that's what the friends/foes functionality is for. But you can also discuss it, that's what the forum is for.