WINDOWS PHONE GLITCH RESOLVED; SKYPE APP 'COMING SOON'
Summary: Windows Phone users who were strike by presentation and app-update problems for the past couple of days are stating whatever caused the glitches seems to have been fixed.
Some arrange of complaint — which many hold had to do with Microsoft’s Live services — shut off certain presentation and app-update capabilities on Windows Phones in the U.S. for the past multiform days. Users are stating as of the sunrise of Jan sixteen that the emanate seems to have been resolved.
I myself beheld on the dusk of Friday Jan thirteen that the notifications on my “Me” tile were no longer working. That meant I couldn’t see mentions from Twitter or Windows Live there. I could, however, see them if I used the Windows Windows Phone 8 [REPORT]” href=”http://www.dtechnews.com/microsoft-has-huge-changes-in-store-for-windows-phone-8-report.html”>Phone Twitter client. Quite a number of other users were experiencing the same issue, with some observant it strike them starting Thursday Jan 12.
Microsoft officials didn’t have most to contend about what was starting on. I asked for more information on Jan 14. On Jan 15, I received word from a orator that “we are questioning these reports and will yield an refurbish when we have more to share.”
Then late on Jan 15, Windows Phone users began stating that the complaint was bound and the notifications were operative again. I asked Microsoft for an additional criticism as to what took down the notifications use and so distant have received no reply.
One of my contacts on Twitter also pronounced that he was incompetent to refurbish any of his Windows Phone apps over the past weekend. He pronounced he received an blunder summary that pronounced Live Services were unavailable. He pronounced the emanate resolved itself at the same time as the Twitter complaint was fixed.
In other Windows Phone news, Microsoft execs pronounced at final week’s Consumer Electronics Show that Windows Phone users will get a Skype app “soon.” Microsoft officials pronounced final year that Microsoft programmed to broach Skype for Windows Phone around the same time they rolled out the “Mango” handling system recover (which was tumble 2011).
When no Windows Phone Skype app materialized, rumors began present that Microsoft’s phone group had motionless to throw the betrothed app and instead were formulation to confederate Skype directly in to the phone platform. But based on final week’s information, it sounds similar to the devise is to broach a Skype app for Windows Phone first, followed by deeper Skype formation in to the handling complement after this year, presumably around the time Microsoft is approaching to hurl out the “Apollo” Windows Phone handling system.
Mary Jo has lonesome the tech attention for more than twenty-five years for a accumulation of publications and Web sites, and is a visit guest on radio, TV and podcasts, vocalization about all things Microsoft-related. She is the writer of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft skeleton to stay applicable in the post-Gates epoch (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).
Summary: Windows Phone users who were strike by presentation and app-update problems for the past couple of days are stating whatever caused the glitches seems to have been fixed.
Some arrange of complaint — which many hold had to do with Microsoft’s Live services — shut off certain presentation and app-update capabilities on Windows Phones in the U.S. for the past multiform days. Users are stating as of the sunrise of Jan sixteen that the emanate seems to have been resolved.
I myself beheld on the dusk of Friday Jan thirteen that the notifications on my “Me” tile were no longer working. That meant I couldn’t see mentions from Twitter or Windows Live there. I could, however, see them if I used the Windows Windows Phone 8 [REPORT]” href=”http://www.dtechnews.com/microsoft-has-huge-changes-in-store-for-windows-phone-8-report.html”>Phone Twitter client. Quite a number of other users were experiencing the same issue, with some observant it strike them starting Thursday Jan 12.
Microsoft officials didn’t have most to contend about what was starting on. I asked for more information on Jan 14. On Jan 15, I received word from a orator that “we are questioning these reports and will yield an refurbish when we have more to share.”
Then late on Jan 15, Windows Phone users began stating that the complaint was bound and the notifications were operative again. I asked Microsoft for an additional criticism as to what took down the notifications use and so distant have received no reply.
One of my contacts on Twitter also pronounced that he was incompetent to refurbish any of his Windows Phone apps over the past weekend. He pronounced he received an blunder summary that pronounced Live Services were unavailable. He pronounced the emanate resolved itself at the same time as the Twitter complaint was fixed.
In other Windows Phone news, Microsoft execs pronounced at final week’s Consumer Electronics Show that Windows Phone users will get a Skype app “soon.” Microsoft officials pronounced final year that Microsoft programmed to broach Skype for Windows Phone around the same time they rolled out the “Mango” handling system recover (which was tumble 2011).
When no Windows Phone Skype app materialized, rumors began present that Microsoft’s phone group had motionless to throw the betrothed app and instead were formulation to confederate Skype directly in to the phone platform. But based on final week’s information, it sounds similar to the devise is to broach a Skype app for Windows Phone first, followed by deeper Skype formation in to the handling complement after this year, presumably around the time Microsoft is approaching to hurl out the “Apollo” Windows Phone handling system.
Mary Jo has lonesome the tech attention for more than twenty-five years for a accumulation of publications and Web sites, and is a visit guest on radio, TV and podcasts, vocalization about all things Microsoft-related. She is the writer of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft skeleton to stay applicable in the post-Gates epoch (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).