Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android As Support Winds Down (macrumors.com) 73
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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And so did iPhones and many of the mid to high range Androids, and they had an actual app ecosystem.
Re: There's a Windows 10 Mobile? (Score:2)
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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.
Re:There's a Windows 10 Mobile? (Score:5, 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.
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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
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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.
Well, I guess (Score:2)
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Objoke (Score:4, Funny)
"Microsoft Suggests Windows 10 Mobile Users Switch To iOS or Android"
Both of them?
Re:Objoke (Score:4, Interesting)
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Annoying, yes. But the system lets you set up the notifications on a per-app basis.
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Same here. So you me and the two ACs make 4. Foolishly I've even just released an app which I use on mine. Just one problem though, and it's now evident that it'll never be fixed -- the WinRT broker infrastructure that's responsible for throttling or allowing apps to run beyond their energy usage quota (on the user's request) is busted, so it's impossible [uservoice.com] to write a truly reliable connected-standby TCP socket app for Win10 mobile build 15063, the final build we'll probably ever see.
Re: Stupid Question - Why not install Android? (Score:5, Informative)
android4lumia.github.io/
Stick it to Google/Apple - Open source the thing (Score:4, 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."
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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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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
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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.
What do you imagine the result of this would look like?
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All remaining Windows 10 users are encouraged to switch to Linux NOW!
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Re:Any suggestions regarding the EOL of Windows 7? (Score:4, Informative)
Mac if you have money to burn, Linux otherwise.
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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.
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The only laptops with a truly good keyboard are MSI's Titan series, most of which use Cherry switches.
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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 de
Microsoft is tired of dealing with mobile users (Score:1)
Go to our competitions. We don't care.
There are updates? (Score:1)
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Uh oh - I know someone with a Surface (Score:2)
Will they at least be able to run Linux on it now?
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Actually in reality, that is what M$ should have done. Well, lose in the market place, hmm, why the fuck not, fuck up my competitors and try to make money on the hardware not the software. The M$ Linux phone with a Windows GUI, selling the hardware is better than nothing and well you might just fuckover your competitors in a big way. How much market share could M$ steal from iOS and Android, with a Linux Mobile Phone system, tied into a free open source app landscape and make money selling the hardware and
Windows Phone was the best (Score:4, Insightful)
I trust Google and Apple as much as I trust Facebook and Amazon: Not at all.
Posted with a Windows Phone.
Why do I keep seeing... (Score:2)
Cosmo (Score:2)
No, not Cosmo Kramer.
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