Windows Phone 8.1 - Windows Phone Area http://www.windowsphonearea.com/tag/windows-phone-8-1/ News, articles, reviews, phones and apps Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:16:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 How Secure Is Your Windows Phone from Hackers? https://www.windowsphonearea.com/how-secure-is-your-windows-phone-from-hackers/ https://www.windowsphonearea.com/how-secure-is-your-windows-phone-from-hackers/#respond Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:09:12 +0000 http://www.windowsphonearea.com/?p=11576 As of July 11, 2017, Microsoft stopped providing security updates and bug fixes for Windows Phone 8.1. It continues to do so for Windows Phone 10. If you own the former or any earlier device, your Windows Phone may be ... Read More

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]]> https://www.windowsphonearea.com/how-secure-is-your-windows-phone-from-hackers/feed/ 0 Windows Phone 8.1 users experiencing problems with the Store https://www.windowsphonearea.com/windows-phone-8-1-users-experiencing-problems-store/ https://www.windowsphonearea.com/windows-phone-8-1-users-experiencing-problems-store/#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2018 07:19:20 +0000 http://www.windowsphonearea.com/?p=11153 Changing the system date will temporarily resolve the issue

Microsoft is committed to keep the Windows Phone 8.1’s Store live by July 11, 2018, while the OS itself is already out-of-support. But a number of users on Windows Phone 8.1 ... Read More

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]]> https://www.windowsphonearea.com/windows-phone-8-1-users-experiencing-problems-store/feed/ 0 Push notifications die today for Windows Phone 7.5 and 8.0 https://www.windowsphonearea.com/push-notifications-die-today-windows-phone-7-5-8-0/ https://www.windowsphonearea.com/push-notifications-die-today-windows-phone-7-5-8-0/#respond Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:39:44 +0000 http://www.windowsphonearea.com/?p=11093 Microsoft shuts down the push notification service for older Windows phones

There are probably not many people still using phones with the ancient Windows Phone 7.5 or 8.0, but Microsoft is shutting down today an important feature of these operating ... Read More

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]]> https://www.windowsphonearea.com/push-notifications-die-today-windows-phone-7-5-8-0/feed/ 0 Windows Phone 8.1 is no longer supported https://www.windowsphonearea.com/windows-phone-8-1-no-longer-supported/ https://www.windowsphonearea.com/windows-phone-8-1-no-longer-supported/#respond Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:31:38 +0000 http://www.windowsphonearea.com/?p=10238 Microsoft officially ended Windows Phone 8.1 support

More than three years after Microsoft released the major update from Windows Phone 8.0 to Windows Phone 8.1, the mobile operating system is officially out of support. Windows Phone 8.1 was a huge ... Read More

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]]> https://www.windowsphonearea.com/windows-phone-8-1-no-longer-supported/feed/ 0 Skype for Windows Phone 8.1 has been stopped https://www.windowsphonearea.com/skype-windows-phone-8-1-stopped/ https://www.windowsphonearea.com/skype-windows-phone-8-1-stopped/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2017 06:22:11 +0000 http://www.windowsphonearea.com/?p=10218 Windows Phone users can no longer run Skype

Microsoft has long stopped updating the Windows Phone version of Skype, but the app still worked on the platform months after the deadline. At the beginning of 2017 we learnt that Skype ... Read More

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]]> https://www.windowsphonearea.com/skype-windows-phone-8-1-stopped/feed/ 0 Upgrade Advisor app in working again on Windows Phone 8.1 https://www.windowsphonearea.com/upgrade-advisor-app-working-windows-phone-8-1/ https://www.windowsphonearea.com/upgrade-advisor-app-working-windows-phone-8-1/#respond Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:37:31 +0000 http://www.windowsphonearea.com/?p=9943 Microsoft fixed the direct upgrade path to Windows 10 Mobile

No, Microsoft has not disabled the ability to upgrade from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 Mobile. The company has fixed the server-side issues preventing users with old Windows ... Read More

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