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If you’ve doggedly remained an avid user of your Windows Phone, routinely playing your Windows Phone games into the small hours, you might wish to know that Microsoft will no longer be supporting its Xbox Live services on the platform from May.<\/p>\n

The company broke the news in a message shared to users of its Xbox app on iOS and Android (thanks Windows Central<\/a>), noting that Xbox features will cease to function on Windows Phone devices starting on 16th May this year.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve doggedly remained an avid user of your Windows Phone, routinely playing your Windows Phone games into the small hours, you might wish to know that Microsoft will no longer be supporting its Xbox Live services on the platform from May. The company broke the news in a message shared to users of its Xbox app on iOS and Android (thanks Windows Central), noting that Xbox features will cease to function on Windows Phone devices starting on 16th May this year. 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