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Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android As Support Winds Down (macrumors.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the end-is-near dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Objoke by unity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well the other guy can do it, I'm holding onto mine until it dies and can't find another one to replace it with. It does everything I need, perfectly.

  2. Stick it to Google/Apple - Open source the thing by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "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."

    (bold mine)

    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."

  3. E-waste by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    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?

  4. Re:There's a Windows 10 Mobile? by Kaenneth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I worked... or rather TRIED to work as a tester on the Windows 10 Mobile team at Microsoft.

    I had 6 bosses. never knowing who to report to for what.

    I had 1 SIM card; and no office phone. To test making/receiving calls on. Calling to/from my personal phone was expressly forbidden by 2 of the bosses.

    The phones would randomly reboot; this was NOT considered a test failure according to 3 of the bosses.