Yahoo has denied Microsoft's claim that it is responsble for a data error in Windows 7 Phone. Yahoo has spoken out after being accused of excessive data costs experienced by some Microsoft Windows 7 Phone (WP7) users.
Last month, noticed the Windows 7 Phone users, large data packets were sent from her phone, even when it was in standby mode, push a little over their download limits. Microsoft fingered an inefficiency in the synchronization of e-mails between its Windows client Phone eMail and Yahoo Mail as the cause of rogue WP7 data charges.
After initially pointing the finger at an unnamed third party app, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft outed as the source of the mysterious data. In a statement, defended Yahoo's Yahoo Mail client and said application has been used successfully on millions of mobile phones, including Apple IOS, Google Android, Nokia Symbian and Research In Motion (RIM).
However, Yahoo has now pointed out that the service does not cause problems on any other mobile platform. The problem on Windows phones are specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail will not affect these other mobile devices, said Yahoo.
Yahoo Mail is widely available in the tens of millions of mobile phones, including those running IOS on Apple, Android, Nokia Symbian, and RIM, the company said in a statement. The company added that it has offered Microsoft a near-term fix for its chosen execution and said it is encouraging Microsoft to switch to a standard way to integrate with Yahoo Mail, which would result in a permanent solution.
The problem on Windows phones are specific to how Microsoft chose to implement IMAP for Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Mail are not affected at these other mobile devices. WP7 Some users were erroneously charged for up to 50mb a day to check e-mail and social networking sites.
Yahoo has offered to give Microsoft a near permanent solution for implementing the selected and urges Microsoft to switch to a standard way to integrate with Yahoo Mail, which would result in a permanent solution, the company said.
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