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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.
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.
"Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android"
Both of them?
It actually was a good phone OS, a bit cludgy, too late to the game and did not gain traction with app developers. Doomed from the start, though if all you needed was a reliable cellphone, it just worked.
"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."
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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
All remaining Windows 10 users are encouraged to switch to Linux NOW!
And so did iPhones and many of the mid to high range Androids, and they had an actual app ecosystem.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
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.
Don't worry it "plays for sure!"
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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.
Mac if you have money to burn, Linux otherwise.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Will they at least be able to run Linux on it now?
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.
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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?
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.
Even if you have enough money, the badly engineered "butterfly keyboard" means you can't buy an Apple laptop with a good keyboard unless you buy the old Mid-2017 MacBook Air which is still available.
#DeleteFacebook
Why do I keep seeing "Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Users Switch To Linux or MacOS As Support Winds Down"? :)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
I keep misreading things... I read "All 10 remaining Windows users are encouraged to switch to Linux NOW!" lol
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Microsoft tried to compete and failed, with Windows 10.
Firefox tried and failed too, using Firefox OS.
Amazon also tried and failed, but since Amazon Fire OS was Android-based, it wasn't really a different option.
Facebook tried a partnership with HTC, but it was only pre-packaged Facebook apps on an Android phone. Who the fuck would want a Facebook phone anyway?
At this point, there is nobody left to compete with Apple and Google.
And with Apple shooting themselves in the foot with their ever-more-expensive devices with features that nobody asked for and even the removal of things people actually want, it's only a matter of time before everyone has no choice but to use Windows 10 laptops and Android phones and tablets.
And since most users are content consumers and not content creators, and with Google's Chrome OS already running on low-cost laptops and also developing Fuchsia as "the one OS to rule them all", the future does not look good if you don't like Google.
#DeleteFacebook
No, not Cosmo Kramer.
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> too late to the game
Microsoft phones had 40% of the US market in 2006. That was _before_ Apple and Android.
> did not gain traction with app developers
Microsoft repeatedly screwed the developers by deadending each successive generation and dumping compatibility. Developers just gave up and went where they could make money and not have to relearn everything every couple of years.
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
The only laptops with a truly good keyboard are MSI's Titan series, most of which use Cherry switches.
Circumcision is child abuse.