Microsoft frustrates its base by breaking Calendar app for Windows Phone 8.1

In Windows Phone 8.1 certain core services take changed in that they can be updated dynamically, bypassing the requirement for a full-fledged Bone update. In theory, that should allow Microsoft to answer to the rapidly changing market by delivering faster paced, piecemeal updates. In reality, it also increases the chances that something may go incorrect, and that is exactly what has happened.

Final night Microsoft pushed out a rare update for the calendar app, which was disentangled from the Bone in viii.one, much like Xbox Music. The update brought the version number to 1.0.14127.246 and there was no changelog. Although it is exasperating to users to have to update an app without knowing what inverse – or improved, information technology is even more vexing when that update breaks something.

Immediately following the update, people in comments started to complain that the attempting to create or edit an appointment caused the agenda app to crash. Nosotros take tested the update on diverse devices, including the Lumia 630 with the Lumia Cyan firmware, and they all take the same problem, rendering the calendar app a view-only tool.

Currently, in that location are over 500 comments left in the original article, most of which vouch for the instability that the update has acquired.

1 temporary work-around is to utilize Cortana, who can add appointments directly to the OS, or to use one of the many third-party calendar apps institute on the Store. Nevertheless, Cortana is currently a U.s.a.-based system, merely accessible by changing regions on the device.

Combined with the ongoing disappointment with Xbox Music, Microsoft seems to be turning allies into enemies with these snafus. Although I expect Microsoft to put out a rapid gear up for the calendar, it does not sit well with the base of operations that something as obvious as this bug went unnoticed during testing. This crash is not some rare, hard to replicate issue and frankly they should be embarrassed. Windows Phone 8.1 is but starting to be pushed out for over-the-air updates or is already existence sold on devices like the Lumia 635, only announced today for T-Mobile. This screw-up is a bad headline at the wrong fourth dimension.

We've reached out Microsoft for comment on the situation. Since a few hours agone, the offending calendar app has been subconscious in the Store to prevent others from updating.

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