Is there Microsoft Ending support for ALL 3 Health Apps for both Windows and WP?

[DSR11]

Microsoft Ending support for ALL 3 Health Apps for both Windows and WP

I don't if anybody else has recieved this notice, and its not posted on the front page by Daniel or anyone:

msn.com
Hello,
We wanted to let you know of some changes. Three of our MSN apps will be discontinued this fall along with some features on the MSN Food & Drink and MSN Health & Fitness websites.
If you have stored any of your data in the apps or on the affected websites, please read important instructions below to retrieve that data before the apps and features are discontinued and your data Is no longer accessible.
MSN Food & Drink, MSN Health & Fitness and MSN Travel apps will be discontinued
? The MSN Food & Drink app on Windows, iOS and Android devices will be discontinued on September 28, 2015.
? The MSN Health & Fitness app on Windows, iOS and Android devices will be discontinued on November 1, 2015.
? The MSN Travel app will be discontinued on September 28, 2015.
These MSN apps will be removed from their respective app stores in the same timeframe as the dates above and will no longer be accessible from your phone, desktop, and tablet devices. Although the apps are being removed, you?ll still find a wealth of content in the Health & Fitness, Travel and Food & Drink sections of the MSN.com website. Here, you'll find the latest news and special features for all three of these interests.
You can also continue to use our other four apps - MSN News, MSN Weather, MSN Sports and MSN Money - and to find them in their respective app stores.
MSN Food & Drink and MSN Health & Fitness website changes
? The Shopping List and Collections features on the MSN Food & Drink website will be discontinued on September 28, 2015.
? The Diet Tracker and Cardio Tracker on the MSN Health and Fitness website will be discontinued on November 1, 2015.
How to keep your data
Once these apps and MSN website features are discontinued, the information you've stored in them will no longer be available. If you'd like to keep your data, please take a few moments before the discontinuation date to store it elsewhere. This data includes the following:
? MSN Food & Drink: Shopping List, Collections, Meal Plans and any personal recipes you have added
? MSN Health & Fitness: Diet Tracker, Cardio Tracker, Pedometer and Favorites
? MSN Travel: Favorites
For more details on how to save or migrate this data, please click here for tips and instructions.
Thank you for using our apps as well as our website features - and we hope to see you soon at MSN.com.
Best wishes,
-The MSN Apps and MSN.com Team

It seems Microsoft is ending support for all of these. Anybody have any info as to why, or if they are going to be replaced with something newer for Windows 10? Seems like a awful shame as these are great products, and help Microsoft with their Band products as well. Isn't this what the Microsoft Band is for, one of its Primary functions??

 

[Jas00555]

Re: Microsoft Ending support for ALL 3 Health Apps for both Windows and WP

This has been written about on the main site before, about a week ago. The reasoning is that these apps were rarely ever used, and so there's not much reason to keep them. That being said, if there were an alternative for Health and Fitness, it would come through an update in the Microsoft Health app.

 

[Jcmg62]

Re: Microsoft Ending support for ALL 3 Health Apps for both Windows and WP

This news broke about a week ago; Microsoft are discontinuing MSN Health, Travel and Food.

I think the obvious reason for getting rid of Travel and Food is that they're not popular enough to justify the upkeep, bearing in mind that Microsoft are looking at making the business more efficient.

Regarding the Health platform...Microsoft are committed to personal health and fitness. They're continuing with HealthVault and moving forward with a new build of Microsoft Band. They're also making on-going improvements to the Microsoft Health platform.

It doesn't really make sense for MS to continue to run three fragmented health focussed apps. They'd be far better off rolling them into one powerful platform with the Microsoft Band at the centre of it, gathering analytics and feeding that data into your profile. I suspect that's what MS are going for.

Not that I have any insider knowledge, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see the best bits of MSN Health moving over to the MS Health App in coming months. I'd also not be surprised to see HealthVault vanishing in the near future

 

[RumoredNow]

Re: Microsoft Ending support for ALL 3 Health Apps for both Windows and WP

You opened this thread right next to one on the exact same topic. http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...pp-will-not-available-after-01-11-2015-a.html

You, yourself, posted to that thread. Why create another?

Please continue in the other thread.