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.

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Objoke

[nospam007]

"Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android"

Both of them?

Re:Objoke

[unity]

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.

Re:There's a Windows 10 Mobile?

[Iwastheone]

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.

Stick it to Google/Apple - Open source the thing

[bogaboga]

"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."

Re: Stupid Question - Why not install Android?

[ChunderDownunder]

android4lumia.github.io/

Re:Any suggestions regarding the EOL of Windows 7?

[Stormwatch]

Mac if you have money to burn, Linux otherwise.

Re:There's a Windows 10 Mobile?

[Kaenneth]

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.

Windows Phone was the best

[DogDude]

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.