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RIP Windows Phone: Microsoft kills off support for ageing smartphone OS

  • July 12, 2017
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Windows Phone 8.1 will no longer be supported
 
By Libby Plummer  Wednesday 12 July 2017
 
Microsoft has killed off support for Windows Phone 8.1, spelling the end for the troubled smartphone OS.
 
Windows Phone 8.1 users will no longer receive updates, which will eventually make their handsets obsolete. The move is good news for both iOS and Android, enabling them to bolster their already dominant position among smartphone platforms.
 
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  • July 12, 2017


I'm guessing that the smaller headstone in this pic belongs to Zune. :p
 
BD

Baldrick
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  • July 12, 2017
Well, Windows Phone may be on the way out but the improved version is just around the corner from what I hear and it will be akin to full blown Windows 10 running on an ARM chip. If MS can do that then to all intents and purposes the opposition may as well pack up and go home as one will really have the option of having a computer in one's phone.
 
The only issue will be cost...they are apparently targeting the business user base rather than the consumer market...but hopefully once they have that they will expand the reach of that new version. 

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