Microsoft Stops Pushing Notifications To Windows 7 and 8 Phones (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:00AM from the great-riddance dept.

The end of Microsoft's Windows Phone project has been a long time coming, and now there's another nail in the coffin. From a report: Microsoft is ending support for all push notifications for Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0 starting Tuesday, February 20th. According to Microsoft's blog post, in addition to the discontinuation of push notifications, live tiles will no longer be updated and the find my phone feature will not work. It's important to note that this doesn't apply to newer devices.

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Re:Old versions? by thsths · 2018-02-19 07:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

Windows Phone 10 was not available until 2016, so obviously Windows Phone 8 devices were sold long into 2016. Some of those might be less than 2 years old. Granted, most will have an update to Windows Phone 10, but disabling the platform so soon will leave a sour taste.