Nonetheless, as the subtitle says, it's "The End of An Era".
damn, i love my windows fone....itz been reliable and easy as hell to use...works great, the only lick of trouble it may have had was due to me monkeying around with it....
The Zune was getting lonely.
I have 2 Windows phones but am not able to upgrade them. They still work fine for email, maps, taking photos, Facebook, and even phone calls.
Still got mine, 640 XL, going strong. I really love the UI. I know its the last of a dying breed, but I have no problem with that. Cortana is already available on Android, I suspect the UI will also be ported over as an official home screen replacement.
This entire article is a misunderstanding of whats happening with the windows platform. Wphone 8 merged the phone and tablet os. thus surface and phone were running the same os. surface pro was always full windows. wphone 10 merged the kernels of w10 and the wphablet os. What is about to happen is the merging of the total phablet/windows desktop os, allowing full blown applications to run on the phablet as well as the desktop. Windows 10s is a locked down somewhat stripped os for mobile and imbedded devices, disallowing non MS store apps. One convergence has been released your computer will no longer be a separate device. your phone will have a google glass like vid/audio interface with a wireless interface so that when you want a standard keyboard, monitor set up all you need to do is walk to you office.
Lastly w10 is being ported to ARM based systems, like iPhone and android so any modern handset 2016+ could be a personal mobile computer. Since the inherent insecurity of linix based systems this could cause a rapid change to windows which has the benefit of being attacked so much that they learned how to lock it down better then other modern os’s
Seems wrong to just leave them hanging like that.
As a once certified MS tech I figured I’d try a Windows Phone a year or two ago thinking it would be intuitive but after a few days I sent it back. It wasn’t intuitive at all to me but then I never upgrade to win10 either.
After hearing this I’m glad I didn’t hang on to it.
I think it’s funny how utterly poorly Microsoft does in almost any area they stick their toes into that is not able to leverage their desktop monopoly. Isn’t this their third time to try phones? Why would anyone buy a windows phone?