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Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android As Support Winds Down (macrumors.com)
Windows 10 Mobile devices will be officially unsupported starting on December 10, 2019. As a result, Microsoft is recommending users move to an Android or iOS device instead. Mac Rumors reports: Microsoft made the recommendation in a Windows 10 Mobile support document (via Thurrott) explaining its plans to stop offering security updates and patches for Windows 10 Mobile: "With the Windows 10 Mobile OS end of support, we recommend that customers move to a supported Android or iOS device. Microsoft's mission statement to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, compels us to support our Mobile apps on those platforms and devices." All customers who have a Windows 10 Mobile device will be able to keep using it after December 10, 2019, but no further updates will be available.
There's something called "Windows 10 Mobile"?
TIL.
But hmm.... why?
Windows, Android, IOS. All collecting everything they can. All run by shady companies.
No thanks!
Worrying about them dropping the promised windows 10 upgrade for my windows 8.1 phone didn't matter after all. Still a good reliable phone interface though.
In the future, companies like Microsoft will be able to shutdown *their* devices remotely once they've decided support will end. The US, like most countries, don't even have "planned obsolescence' laws (which is why a company like Apple can remotely f*ck with your battery).
> "All customers who have a Windows 10 Mobile device will be able to keep using it after December 10, 2019..."
What odd phrasing... Thanks for your permission, Microsoft: That one guy in France must be very happy.
"Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android"
Both of them?
Why couldn't Microsoft (or someone) just release a version of Android for one or more of these phones?
I suspect the major reason is money, but still, aren't these phones pretty generic inside at this point?
"With the Windows 10 Mobile OS end of support, we recommend that customers move to a supported Android or iOS device. Microsoft's mission statement to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, compels us to support our Mobile apps on those platforms and devices."
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And the only way to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is to Open Source Windows 10.
The result would be to stick it to Google/Apple too, which would be "icing on the cake."
Linux? MacOS?
you do know that assuming something about someone without knowing anything about them just "makes an ass out of you"
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
As we all know, Android is for poor people and poors likely never bought a windows phone
Elitist attitudes like yours just really piss me off. May you live an interesting life. (That's an ancient Chinese curse, btw.)
Win mobile had itâ(TM)s problems but it was a really good interface and highly under rated. Only having 2 platforms, one totally controlled by Google and the other controlled by Apple is terrible. We need a broader marketplace for phone environments.
windows 10 will be the last windows you'll ever buy... on a phone.
Actually, it is âoeMay you live in interesting timesâ and yes, it was a Chinese curse
All that crap they spout about global warming and caring for the environment and they let thousands of phones go into the garbage like its some sort of consumable item?
Both versions basically mean the same idea that goes back those ancient days. We do live in interesting times, for better or worse. Live the best life you can under current conditions, just my advice. Take care of you and yours the best you can. ;)
No wonder why windows 10 mobile sunk then. It was both overpriced AND crap.
Go to our competitions. We don't care.
My Windows phone is with Verizon. It is 6 years old and has not received an update in 5 years.
This is why we just tell people to go fuck themselves. Less chance of being misunderstood, and less chance of us fucking up the insult.
I believe it was the opposite. When it became clear that it was a flop, carriers sold their old stocks dirt cheap. Thus, only poor people bought WPs.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Will they at least be able to run Linux on it now?
He is poor. Of course he curses.
I am a millionaire and have an Android phone. How does that fit your theory? One reason I am is that I don't throw money around on over-priced hipster stuff.
Another Microsoft failure, like Zune and Cortana Windows mobile goes down as yet another example of a slow tech company failing to get its act together on competing with others. At least now Microsoft is starting to wind down its obsession with thinking that it can start from the back and win. Although they still have obsessions with Chrome OS, and making Windows way more then it needs to be.
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And the only way to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is to Open Source Windows 10.
The result would be to stick it to Google/Apple too, which would be "icing on the cake."
Why TF do you think every person currently using open source stuff would want to switch to an open-sourced Windows? It will remain the platform for malware and adware whatever you do to it - partly because the world of admen and scammers needs such a platform. An open source Windows development environment would merely be a battleground between people like you trying or wanting to mend it and the scammers constantly adding more malware to it. At least with Microsoft it's better the devil you know than the devil you don't.
You think Linux has a lot of forks, but open source Windows would have thousands of them as each scammer promotes their own version and attempts to take control of the others, and Joe WIndowsuser would would suck it all up ("I see your Windows is Out of Date - Click Here to Resolve this Issue"). Anyone with good intent would be the loser.
And the only way to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is to Open Source Windows 10.
What do you imagine the result of this would look like?
The news that Windows Phone has reached end of life status will come as a big disappointment to the remaining Windows Phone fans...both of them.
I'm still using a Windows Phone, and I've bought a few backups for when the batteries wear out. I simply won't use a Google or Apple phone because i don't want all of my personal data harvested and sold to anybody with money. Once all of my Windows Phones are dead, i will probably use a flip phone. I already carry around a laptop most of the time, so i can just that for email. This really sucks. Windows Phone was the best mobile OS by a mile. The UI on Apple and Google phones are dogshit. Also, I doubt that Microsoft was harvesting all of my personal data to sell to the highest bidder.
I trust Google and Apple as much as I trust Facebook and Amazon: Not at all.
Posted with a Windows Phone.
I don't respond to AC's.
Why do I keep seeing "Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Users Switch To Linux or MacOS As Support Winds Down"? :)
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No, not Cosmo Kramer.
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> poors likely never bought a windows phone
Actually it was Windows Phones that were more likely to be in the bargain bin. Nokia phone division never made a profit from Windows Phones in spite of getting a billion a year from Microsoft because they had to sell phones below cost in order to sell them at all.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/...
If you had a fucking brain asshole, you could have done a google search to see who uses Android phones.
You would have found both celebrities and also various billionaires.
Showing that assuming really does make an ass out of you. You specifically. Fucking idiot
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
Linux has been open source for 25 or so years, what makes you think open sourcing is the key to consumer adoption?
Being mostly open-source has helped Android, but that would have died a long time ago without Google pushing it so hard.