Summary:
Facebook Connect across a variety of Microsoft services and applications will be discontinued and no longer available
Comments:
A change to the Facebook Graph API will negatively impact and eliminate the ability to connect, synchronize and publish data to Facebook to and from a multitude of Microsoft Services. The impacted services, devices, and/or applications are:
- Outlook.com Contacts
- Outlook.com, Windows , Windows Phone and Office 365 Calendar sync
- Windows 8.1 People app
- Windows 8 People app
- Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 Calendar app
- Windows 8 Photo Gallery and Movie Maker (Photo Gallery Movie Maker are Windows Essentials apps not Windows 8)
- Windows 8 Photos App
- Windows Phone 7 and 8 People app
- Windows Phone 7 and 8 OneDrive
- Windows Phone 7 and 8 Photos
- Windows Essentials and Windows Live Essentials Calendar and Contacts
- OneDrive Online
- Outlook Social Connector in Outlook 2013
- Office 365 Outlook Web App
Additional Information:
- Microsoft Email Notification
- Microsoft Support Office.com Article – ‘Facebook Connect is no longer available’
The Microsoft Office.com article explains how the change will impact your connected apps and services
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2014/04/30/the-new-facebook-login
The Facebook article provides details on the Graph API 2.0 change and additional links on the API Versioning and support period for previous Graph API versions.
Editor comment: Facebook article notification (April 2014) indicates that earlier Graph API versioning would be supported for existing developed apps for 2 years. The Microsoft notification and feature deprecation appears to jump start that lack of support with notification well in advance of the 2 years and possibly loss of the Facebook Connect feature well in advance of the 2 years. The logical assumption – little or no effort or resources devoted over the last 14 months to address or adapt to the Facebook change for the impacted Microsoft services (i.e. the loss of the connected feature in Microsoft product’s could be mutual – some Microsoft, some Facebook, not all Facebook)
Revisions:
June 9, 2015: Original Draft and Publish Date
June 9, 2015. Added Editor ‘Comment’
