Microsoft flipping the switch for Sina Weibo's integration into the People Hub

As we've mentioned before, the People Hub has ever been a pain for Chinese Windows Phone devices, considering what's chosen "People Hub" in the Chinese version of the Os but doesn't take whatever social functions. To put it mildly, the module has been nothing but an unnecessarily complicated phone volume. The reason for this is quite simple: Microsoft yanked out all the social services blocked past China'south national Great Firewall (Twitter, Facebook), and removed the ones that practically have no user at all in China (LinkedIn), without giving any replacements. Finally this is going to modify, today.

Earlier today, Microsoft reportedly opened up Sina Weibo integration into the People Hub for for some random Windows Phone 8 devices. Sina Weibo is a microblogging service, which works just similar Twitter on almost every aspect, except for:

• It has over 300 million Chinese users, many times bigger than the Chinese-speaking population on Twitter.
• And more importantly, it'due south not blocked by the Great Firewall.

Sina Weibo in People Hub works much similar Twitter also. Windows Phone 8 users will supposedly be able to, when Microsoft finally finishes testing, post new tweets, retweet or reply, and share pictures to Sina Weibo directly through People Hub and the Me tile.

Currently the service seems to exist all the same under test, and working quite buggily: retweeting fine, replying fine, but can't post any new tweet yet.

For a side notation, Microsoft did lock Chinese Windows Phone devices to Chinese Marketplace as expected. This is rather a weird motility for Microsoft. It doesn't have to follow Chinese government'due south political censorship rules to such extent, since the Chinese version of both Windows 8 and Windows RT are entirely open up to Windows Store region switching. This restriction is definitely pushing more than geeky smartphone users to the smugglers.

Source: WPDang

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