Nevertheless, those apps whose functionality depends on online services such as Lumia Storyteller, Lumia Refocus, Lumia Beamer and Photobeamer will cease to work, once their development support ends on 30 October.

Case in point: the Lumia Storyteller app, which uses information about when and where a photo was captured to create a video collage of images doesn’t have an analog in the current system apps for Windows 10 Mobile.

While it’s hard to figure out what these improvements and bug fixes actually are, it’s really important to get this new version of the app, especially if you’re a Windows Insider and plan to install every build the company plans to release.Several Lumia-branded apps are being killed off, effective immediately.

News from Lumia Conversations has it that to streamline the camera experience on the Windows Phone platform, Microsoft is ending support for some Lumia apps. That means that these apps will no longer be available from Windows Phone Store starting today-though I just checked, and they are still there now. Lumia Panorama and Video Uploader will continue to function, but will lack support and won’t be updated going forward.

Microsoft also estimates that 90 percent of CAC 40 companies have chosen one of its cloud services (Office 365, Azure, online CRM, etc.), with Office 365 used by 60 percent of CAC 40 companies and by 90 percent of businesses generally.

Keep in mind that while this version of Dropbox is a universal application, the changes that we mentioned earlier will only be available to Windows Phone 8.1 users, so if you qualify for this update start checking for it right now.

There is a time limit on retrieving published stories because as of October 30, 2015, “the online store’s site will no longer be available from the web service”, according to Microsoft. Assuming you do so before October 31. From the Carl Zeiss lens to the Lumia Creative Studio app for photo editing, Windows Phone camera experience was second to none in the smartphone industry.