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Bill Gates has given up his Windows phone. HP is pulling production of its flagship Windows handset. Now Microsoft has finally seen the writing on the wall -- there aren't enough people using Windows 10 Mobile or enough apps to make it viable.
Corporate vice president of Windows 10 and head of Microsoft's 'PC-Tablet-Phone' division, Joe Belfiore, said on Twitter Sunday that Microsoft will continue to support Windows 10 Mobile with bug fixes and security updates, but new features and hardware are no longer front and centre.
Microsoft is no upstart in the mobile space. It produced versions of its software for mobile devices for more than 20 years -- starting with Windows CE for personal digital assistants in 1996, and later with Windows Mobile in 2000.
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Windows 10 Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft.First released in 2015, it is a successor to Windows Phone 8.1, but was marketed by Microsoft as being an edition of its PC operating system Windows 10. Windows 10 Mobile is being made available to supported smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1. Phones and devices that can upgrade to Windows 10 are Lumia Icon, 1520, 930, 640, 640XL, 730, 735, 830, 532, 535, 540, 635 1GB, 636 1GB, 638 1GB, 430, 435, BLU Win HD w510u, BLU Win HD LTE x150q and MCJ Madosma Q501 1.
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But the ecosystem has struggled since the launch of Apple's iOS in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008. According to the most recent sales figures from Kantar Worldpanel, Windows phones account for just 1.3 percent of the market in the US, bested only by BlackBerry at 0.3 percent. Compare that with Android's 64 percent share of new phone sales and 34 percent for iOS (figures that are closely matched in the UK and Australia).
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Microsoft has attempted to leverage its legacy in the PC space to push further into mobile -- Windows 10 Mobile was billed as the 'everywhere OS' that would let users shift seamlessly between desktop, tablet and mobile.
But users have long complained the lack of apps on Windows Mobile devices is a deal breaker.
While Belfiore said Microsoft has tried 'very hard' to provide incentives for app developers to get apps onto Windows Mobile, the 'volume of users is too low for most companies to invest' in the ecosystem.
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Ex-Microsoft employee Nawzil Nejeeb has now revealed that the Redmond giant is planning to support Windows 10 Mobile devices until December 2019. Nawzil is a reliable source and in a Facebook post, he detailed that Windows Phones with Windows 10 Mobile Fall Creators Update will be supported until the end of 2019.
Microsoft supports each version of Windows 10 Mobile for at least 26 months and the support could be extended as well, if the company plans to extend support for the operating system, it will be announced within 1 year of the below dates.
Windows 10 Mobile version 1511 build 10586 / Initial Release: January 9, 2018
Windows 10 Mobile version 1607 build 14393 / Anniversary Update: October 9, 2018
Windows 10 Mobile version 1703 build 15063 / Creators Update: June 11, 2019
Windows 10 Mobile version 1709 build 15254 / Fall Creators Update: December 10, 2019
Windows 10 Mobile version 1607 build 14393 / Anniversary Update: October 9, 2018
Windows 10 Mobile version 1703 build 15063 / Creators Update: June 11, 2019
Windows 10 Mobile version 1709 build 15254 / Fall Creators Update: December 10, 2019
Compatible Lumia phones with Windows 10 Mobile Fall Creators Update will be supported into 2020 with bug fixes and improvements. Microsoft is actually supporting the Lumia phones for around 4 years from the launch date. “(Lumia phones) get Feature Updates during those 2 years. Each Feature Update is supported for around 26 months. The last Feature Update that a Lumia phone gets at the end of the 2 years will be supported for around 2 years, so the total support period for a Lumia phone is around 4 years from the date it is launched,” Nawzil says.
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Remember that the Windows Phones that are not compatible with the Fall Creators Update won’t be supported and after the company drops support for those phones, you may need to buy a new supported Windows Phone.
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The Fall Creators Update is the last major update for Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore earlier confirmed that the company will support the existing phones but with only bug fixes. It is highly likely that Microsoft will not even add minor change such as new emojis to Windows 10 Mobile, the operating system will be however getting new changes but only for enterprises.