If you been waiting for a Microsoft Band 3, its time to look at other Fitness Trackers. Microsoft seems to have no plan for next version of its in-house fitness tracker, which was expected to run Windows 10 IOT. A new report from ZDNET suggest, that Microsoft might be moving the team to work on Microsoft Health Platform.

According to ZDNet’s sources:

Contacts told me recently that Microsoft has no plans to release a new Band fitness device this calendar year. I also heard that Microsoft disbanded the group of individuals who were trying to get the Band to run Windows 10 a number of weeks ago. But they weren’t certain whether Microsoft might simply release a Band 3 running firmware at some point in the future. The first- and second-generation Band devices run custom firmware, not Windows.

Its disheartening to see Microsoft killing off another hardware, and revealing that the companies ultimate goal is to get their services make profit, instead of hardware. The Lumia brand faced the same fate, but online fitness bands, nobody is making a phone for Windows 10.

This whole thing clears up one thing, that like Surface devices, Microsoft Band was created as an example on how well it utilises the sensors, integration, and its sync with Microsoft Health. If companies like Nike, Fitbit, and others would have picked up this idea, we would have seen tons of them, but no one did, as everybody is running their own race. So yes, its a platform war to be very clear.