Here Maps Drops Support for Windows Phone and Windows 10

Here maps has been a strong part of Microsoft’s Windows Phone offering for years, but that’s coming to an end later this month. Here is announcing today that it plans to pull its mapping apps for Windows 10 on March 29th, and “will limit the development of the apps for Windows Phone 8 to critical bug fixes.” If you own one of the latest Lumia 950 handsets, then Here maps will stop working after June 30th. If you’re still on a Windows Phone 8.1 device, then Here maps will keep working, unless you upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile once it’s available in the coming weeks.

“We made the Here apps compatible with Windows 10 by using a workaround that will no longer be effective after June 30, 2016,” explains Here spokesperson Pino Bonetti. “To continue offering the HERE apps for Windows 10 would require us to redevelop the apps from the ground up, a scenario that led to the business decision to remove our apps from the Windows 10 store.”

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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