Microsoft Band gets more app integrations, smarter coaching

Microsoft is today announcing an update to its Band wearable that adds integration with bike-tracking apps Strava and MapMyRide, as well as further insights based on the information captured by the Band's various sensors. The Strava and MapMyRide integration follows the addition of a Bike Tile that came in February and lets users share their tracked rides to those networks.

The new insights are visible on the Microsoft Health Web Dashboard, a website that lets users review their activity captured by the band. The Health platform can now provide comparisons with other Band wearers based on height and weight, so users can easily see how they stack up. (Microsoft notes that this data is anonymized and is used in an opt-in program, so those...

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