Are you still planning to start running on Monday, next month, or in spring? And, of course, eat right? In principle, we all know perfectly well how important it is to be healthy, and we have a rough idea of ​​what needs to be done for this. But for some reason something is always lacking - either willpower, time, or motivation. And today, when we only do what we look at the screens of our smartphones, fitness applications may well become that magic kick in the direction of health and sports. If you are too lazy not only to run, but also to download several applications about proper nutrition, health and fitness, then you can try the service that was released just a month ago - MSN Health & Fitness. Works with 8 and is completely free by the way. Let's see what happened with the IT giant.

The first thing that catches your eye is the Metro-style interface, ubiquitous in its products, from Phone (for which it was originally developed) to Windows 8. The service is powered by the Bing search engine. So, the main page is divided into four tabs - "Today", "Fitness", "Nutrition", "Medicine". The first is main screen with quick access to the basic information, the treadmill and diet tracker are immediately launched. There is still data pedometer for today, by default it is set that you need to walk 10 thousand steps a day. When I installed the application, I wondered how he knew how many steps I took yesterday. It turns out that information from the Health App, preinstalled in 8. MSN interacts with it and exchanges information (if not disabled in the settings).

The second top tab " Fitness"Sends us to the world of sports. There is everything that your heart desires - all sorts of thematic articles, collections of video workouts, lesson plans for different types fitness. Councils, sets of exercises. Everything is updated via the Internet.

In chapter " Nutrition"- relevant articles, advice from nutritionists and all that. By the way, the transition to the diet tracker - from the page today, in "Nutrition" - only articles, which is a little strange. In the diet tracker, we set the required number of calories per day, and then - everything that we ate per day, the program analyzes and counts calories. This makes it easier to control your diet, especially if you want to lose weight. Just mind not to cheat, and write down all the cakes eaten. I'll write down my omelet for breakfast.

Medicine- visually, this is the most successful part of the service. In addition to articles, here you can open a 3D model of the human body - see how the systems or individual organs look. Models can be rotated and viewed from all sides. Useful for schoolchildren and anyone interested in anatomy.

And also Microsoft developers decided to surprise us with the built-in "mini-doctor". By selecting the "Symptom check" item, we again see a 3D person, and by touching the part of his body that hurts, we get a list possible problems... I chose the belly, and here are the problems with the belly.

There is also a whole list of non-specific symptoms like anemia, edema, high blood pressure, and more. A true paradise for hypochondriacs. You can find 10,500 of all kinds of ailments in your home. In general, if something really bothers you, it's better to go to an offline doctor.

And for dessert, the most interesting. I'll try to run around with MSN, because among this colorful variety of health tools I managed (though not right away) to find in it and running tracker... It starts with home page("Today") - the icon of a man with an arrow.

Here, in general, everything is standard - mileage, pace, speed, goals, a voice trainer, the frequency of notifications of which can be configured. But the Russian voice is very artificial, it pronounces some sounds incorrectly. No auto-pause is sadness. After jogging, I want to see my route. The map is very sparse, it cannot be enlarged and in my case the names of the streets are not even visible. Forget about features like seeing the routes of other users or saving your own. After training, you can see the analysis of your run in circles, and the results are added to "Health".

Trying to keep up with the times Microsoft released a fashionable sports service today. But such an impressive set of tools is cramped in one application. It turned out to be an overkill, some of the chips could be interesting, but turned out to be unfinished. And in general, the application often slows down, even when good internet... Remember the bearded anecdote about the 5-story airliner from Microsoft “... now everyone should fasten their seat belts and we will try to take off with all this stuff”?

In a healthy body healthy mind!

Microsoft's service called MSN was constantly promoted by the company inside Windows systems, but did not find great popularity (at least among users of the CIS countries). Quite recently, Microsoft has released a set of applications that provide access to some of the capabilities of the MSN system, and it should be admitted that the applications turned out to be of very high quality and worthy of attention. The first app to look out for is MSN Health & Fitness. V this annex not only workouts, diets and other useful health articles are collected, but there is also a built-in diet and workout tracker, so the versatility of the application really pleases.

After launching the application, you are surprised by such a beautiful interface, which is somewhat reminiscent of tiles from Windows 8. The interface consists of 4 main tabs:
1. Today - on it you will find the main picture, after clicking on which you will be shown a news cycle that corresponds to the specified title. You can also go to the diet / exercise tracker, see a list of popular workouts, exercises and another little surprise - a 3D model of the human body, which can be viewed directly in the application.
2. Fitness - a list of exercises that you can do both at home and in the gym. For each exercise there is a description and a video on how to do it.
3. Nutrition - a list of articles from various sites that correspond to the main topic of the "Nutrition" section. All articles can be viewed even in the application without switching to the browser, while the readability of the text remains just as convenient, plus everything, there is an opportunity to increase / decrease the size of the text.
4. Medicine - on this tab you will find a 3D model of the human body, as well as various articles from Russian sites that fit the topic of the “Medicine” section.
Also on top panel there is a search bar and in the same place you will find a button to open side panel... On it you will find the “My Profile” section, where you can enter your personal data (weight, height), as well as go to the settings.

There are a minimum of settings, they are in Russian and it will be very, very easy to figure it out. Let's summarize: “ MSN Health & Fitness”Is a great health and wellness news aggregator and a handy diet and exercise tracker. Enjoy your use!

If Microsoft has shut down MSN Health & Fitness, it's not entirely clear what that means for fitness trackers for Windows Phone s.

Microsoft confirmed on Friday that work on underutilized MSN apps will be discontinued and apps such as Photosynth, MSN Food and Drink, MSN Travel, and MSN Health & Fitness will not appear on Windows 10. But the end of support for the latter app seems like a real blow to Microsoft's nascent health initiative.

All apps will be closed for whatever platforms they run on: iOS, Android, and OS Windows. In almost all cases, only applications are currently sunk into oblivion. For example, Microsoft plans to keep its MSN Health & Fitness website.

Because of this, the impact on each application will vary. For example, the app for MSN Health and Drink, for example, contains a feature that allows users to create and organize shopping lists. But the rest of the application copies the web page: The user can research and search for different recipes and read "news" on such a variety of related topics. The MSN Travel app allows you to search for required flights and available hotels, as well as track the status of all your flight functions, which can be handled through the website. Finally, even Photosynth.net will be supported, although support for iOS and Android apps will be discontinued.

Microsoft Health & Fitness offers an amazing amount of information about your day.

But MSN Health & Fitness is in all likelihood the most valuable to users and it is not known what this destruction of the application will mean for the company. Microsoft representatives did not provide an answer to this question during the press conference.

"We regularly evaluate our business to ensure it is focused on the areas where our users find the most value," Microsoft said. "We will continue to support applications with broad consumer appeal, including News, Weather, Sports and Money, which will be available in the Windows 10 app suite and remain cross-platform."

Fallback apps that are still different

Microsoft offers two targeted health tracking apps: MSN Health & Fitness and Microsoft Health. Both work on Windows Phones, but Microsoft has set that new Microsoft application Health will work almost exclusively with the Microsoft Band.

Unfortunately MSN Health & Finally is great standalone application which has the enhanced tracking capabilities supported by most modern Lumia phones, saving you an extra $ 100 instead of buying a dedicated device. It even keeps track of your walking and running steps by default, which the Band doesn't do unless you specify a "workout" mode. And while it has a slightly different workout mix than the Health app (mainly focused on yoga, Pilates and strength, while Microsoft Health & Fitness has expanded and attracted its work, even on a bicycle), the Health & Fitness app is possible provides a more complete list of the most common exercises.

The MSN Travel app simply pulls information from the website.

Unfortunately, the MSN Health & Fitness website only offers common list health news without offering anything specific to users. And according to VentureBeat, the Health & Fitness app will reset any of your saved data before November 1st.

However, Microsoft says Microsoft Health will also lose data for Windows Phone. "Microsoft Band works with Microsoft Health focused on cloud service to store, share and transform information into ideas that you can use to achieve your fitness goals, "said a Microsoft spokesman in an email.

"Just like you track steps and calories on WP, the Microsoft Health app will work," the spokesman added. "If you wear the Band, it will be selected as the priority tracker.

Microsoft plans to get rid of MSN applications and after Windows 10 Mobile the implementation of its solution is expected. And maybe then a viable alternative will be created for Windows 10 and Microsoft Health. But it still looks like Microsoft is trying to complete work on good application and get rid of it for no good reason.

Are you still planning to start running on Monday, next month, or in spring? And, of course, eat right? In principle, we all know perfectly well how important it is to be healthy, and we have a rough idea of ​​what needs to be done for this. But for some reason something is always missing - either willpower, time, or motivation. And today, when we only do what we look at the screens of our smartphones, fitness applications may well become that magic kick in the direction of health and. If you are too lazy not only to run, but also to download several applications about proper nutrition, health and fitness, then you can try the service that was released just a month ago - MSN Health & Fitness. Works with, and by the way is completely free. Let's see what happened with the IT giant.

The first thing that catches your eye is the Metro-style interface, ubiquitously used by Microsoft in its products from Windows Phone (for which it was originally developed) to Windows 8. The service is powered by the Bing search engine. So, the main page is divided into four tabs - "Today", "Fitness", "Nutrition", "Medicine". The first is the main screen with quick access to basic information, and the treadmill and diet tracker are immediately launched. There is still data pedometer for today, by default it is set that you need to walk 10 thousand steps a day. When I installed the application, I wondered how he knew how many steps I took yesterday. It turns out that information from the Health App, preinstalled in iOS 8. MSN interacts with it and exchanges information (if not disabled in the settings).

The second top tab " Fitness"Sends us to the world of sports. There is everything that your heart desires - all sorts of thematic articles, video workouts, training plans for different types of fitness. Councils, sets of exercises. Everything is updated via the Internet.

In chapter " Nutrition"- relevant articles, advice from nutritionists and all that. By the way, the transition to the diet tracker - from the page today, in "Nutrition" - only articles, which is a little strange. In the diet tracker, we set the required number of calories per day, and then - everything that we ate per day, the program analyzes and counts calories. This makes it easier to control your diet, especially if you want to lose weight. Just mind not to cheat, and write down all the cakes eaten. I'll write down my omelet for breakfast.

Medicine- visually, this is the most successful part of the service. In addition to articles, here you can open a 3D model of the human body - see how the systems or individual organs look. Models can be rotated and viewed from all sides. Useful for schoolchildren and anyone interested in anatomy.

And also Microsoft developers decided to surprise us with the built-in "mini-doctor". By selecting the "Symptom check" item, we again see a 3D person, and by touching the part of his body that hurts, we get a list of possible problems. I chose the belly, and here are the problems with the belly.

There is also a whole list of non-specific symptoms like anemia, edema, high blood pressure, and more. A true paradise for hypochondriacs. You can find 10,500 of all kinds of ailments in your home. In general, if something really bothers you, it's better to go to an offline doctor.

And for dessert, the most interesting. I'll try to run around with MSN, because among this colorful variety of health tools I managed (though not right away) to find in it and running tracker... It starts from the main page ("Today") - the icon of a man with an arrow.

Here, in general, everything is standard - mileage, pace, speed, goals, a voice trainer, the frequency of notifications of which can be configured. But the Russian voice is very artificial, it pronounces some sounds incorrectly. No auto-pause is sadness. After jogging, I want to see my route. The map is very sparse, it cannot be enlarged and in my case the names of the streets are not even visible. Forget about features like seeing the routes of other users or saving your own. After training, you can see the analysis of your run in circles, and the results are added to "Health".