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Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone?

Posted by samzenpus on from the red-headed-step-child dept.

symbolset writes "Microsoft has had some trouble as of late getting adoption of their mobile products. Even Bill Gates has said it was inadequate. Despite rave reviews of Windows Phone in the press it has failed to get double digit share of the smartphone market. Now comes reports from WMPoweruser that WP8 will lose mainstream support in July 2014."

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  1. Re:Perception is Reality by DogDude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The harsh truth is it was never a serious competitor which will hurt Microsoft in the future, as its potential customers continue to get burnt....it will end up like the Zune.

    Windows Phone 7.5 still works fine. Windows Phone 8.0 works even better (more features). I don't know anybody with a Windows Phone (myself included) that feels that they have gotten "burnt" from the product. Not that it's relevant anymore, but that link you provided wasn't exactly 100% accurate, either. Your "harsh truth" is really anything but.

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  2. Re:Good news by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not going to believe it until/unless they stop selling the phones (and w/o a new version being offered).

    All said, Microsoft likely makes enough money from the Great Android Extortion, so even if they stopped distributing WP8 tomorrow morning, they'd still make money hand-over-fist.

    (OTOH, how would you think Nokia would react if such a thing happened?)

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