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Guru3D.com » News » Microsoft halts development of Windows 10 Mobile

Microsoft halts development of Windows 10 Mobile

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/10/2017 08:50 AM | source: | 32 comment(s)
Microsoft halts development of Windows 10 Mobile

Microsoft says it no longer working on new features and hardware for Windows 10 Mobile. This means the development of the mobile operating system has halted.

Microsoft top-dawg Joe Belfiore stated this on on Twitter. Belfiore is the vice president of the tech operator's operating system branch. According to him, Microsoft will only provide bug fixes and security updates for Windows 10 Mobile. Microsoft has not provided major updates for the mobile Windows platform for a while now, but to date, the tech giant never officially shared the info that the development was stopped.

Belfiore says he himself does not use a Windows smartphone anymore. The topman has now switched to an Android phone, which says it all really.

During a reorganization last year, the tech company already fired hundreds of people, limiting smartphone business significantly. HP, one of the last companies that still made Windows phones, said recently to discontinue the production of these phones as well.



Microsoft halts development of Windows 10 Mobile




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Battlefieldprin
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#5480103 Posted on: 10/10/2017 09:01 AM
They should not be shy and stop it all together. it is a big waste of time. I am going to throw my Nokia sooon.

Kaarme
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#5480107 Posted on: 10/10/2017 09:14 AM
The price of this failed experiment was quite phenomenal, but from my, and my countrymen's, pov the real price of it was Nokia's downfall. I'm not going to accuse MS of that since it was Nokia's own stupidity to jump on that ship (or rather to hire Elop the Infiltrator who orchestrated it), but if MS had never attempted, Nokia would have naturally ended up with Android. I reckon it would still be among the big 5 phone manufacturers. MS itself has probably earned back the money it lost there from its cloud business and other such stuff.

AsiJu
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#5480117 Posted on: 10/10/2017 09:30 AM
^ what he said.

I hope Nokia's new Android phones sell well but the damage is already done, so to speak.

Nokia's downfall began in the 90s if rumours are true. Apparently Nokia already had a concept for a design similar to iPhone but some genius decided it wasn't feasible and was scrapped.

I wonder if Apple would agree...

rl66
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#5480119 Posted on: 10/10/2017 09:36 AM
This is quite normal, month before they stop mobile hardware they boosted the Android dev's ressource...

Now you have nearly all M$ on both Android and iOS (and on both they started to make to make really good app like Pix, lens, arrow...

With the poor sale of Lumia despite real quality (950 and 950XL were very good) it was logical to drop W10 Mobile and focus on more profitable Android and iOS even more when M$ still earn money with patent used by Google and Apple within their OS (it was a big deal for M$).

Loobyluggs
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#5480149 Posted on: 10/10/2017 11:18 AM
Developers developers developers developers!

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