HERE bye to Windows platforms, it focuses on Android and iOS

The news was in the air and was preceded by a series of signals, such as discontinuous presence of its app in the Windows Store, formally justified by technical problems that affected indexing: HERE HERE confirms the removal of the app from the Windows Store 10 from March 29 and a considerable reduction of the activity of the similar app development for Windows Phone that will limit the introduction of "critical type of bug fixes".

Is not the long-standing partnership between the Windows Phone OS and HERE app made possible by the know-how gained in the field of cargo shipping services from what, until the end of 2015, it operated as a business unit of Nokia, then pass under the control of the consortium of German automobile manufacturers (Audi, BMW and Daimler). New management that can - but it is a mere speculation not supported by official statements - have recently imposed cuts.

In recent months, the team points out, the app HERE have been made compatible with Windows 10 using a solution that will no longer be effective from 30 June 2016. The alternative to continue using them was dismissed out of hand. Continue to offer the app HERE for Windows 10 apps HERE require, in fact, the total rewriting of the same, a perspective that led to the decision of removal from the store. As a concrete effect, as of June 30, 2016 HERE apps no longer work with Windows 10 Mobile smartphone.

The impact on users who chose to use a Windows Mobile smartphone will be 10, however, less negative than it appears, since most of the resources made available from the app was transposed HERE Maps app pre-installed in the operating system . Microsoft, in fact, developed using HERE Maps Platform.

As for Windows Phone 8 smartphones and PCs with Windows 8, apps HERE continue to work without special restrictions. HERE he has indeed committed to release updates aimed at correcting major bugs entities to offer the possibility to also use the app HERE with the aforementioned platforms in the future. At the same time, he stressed that will not be added more features and - even more serious note - there are no map updates on the Windows Phone platform.