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Microsoft Stops Pushing Notifications To Windows 7 and 8 Phones (engadget.com)
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.
That would be the case if owners of Windows Phone 7.5 and 8.0 could update to newer versions. My understanding is that not all of them can. Heck some Windows 7.5 owners couldn't even upgrade to 8.0
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
I hope consumers learn their lesson this time... that lesson being: In addition to being untrustworthy and unreliable, Microsoft are fickle and do not care about the longevity of any of their products, willing to quickly take an axe to anything that is not profitable with little thought for the customers who invested significant money in it not long before.