Collaborate Disseminate
In memory of the beloved Microsoft consumer products and services that have been ripped from our cold, dead hands.
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Microsoft is shutting down the backend powering all the online-based Microsoft Band features.
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Most of the privacy reporting these days is focused on Google and Facebook because these firms maximize their earnings by knowing more about you.
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Microsoft is renaming its Microsoft Health app on Android, iPhone and Windows phone to Microsoft Band, ostensibly because it’s a more obvious name for customers. But then, that’s the problem: There are no customers.
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With the Band 2 reaching its end of life and no Band 3 on the horizon, the future of the company’s health initiative is a bit foggy.
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For over two weeks now, I’ve secretly made a major change to my daily workflow and have been using as many Microsoft mobile apps on PC, tablet, and smartphone as possible. And my relative levels of success speak volumes, I think, to the state of Microsoft’s mobile efforts here in mid-2016.
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The Microsoft Health app for Android is being updated today, adding support for the Cortana digital personal assistant. Yes, that means that you can now use Cortana on your Band 2.
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Thanks to a coming update to the Microsoft Health mobile app, Microsoft Band users will be able to compete with their friends on Facebook using new social challenges and leaderboards.
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