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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 11 2017, @03:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the playing-taps dept.

Windows Phone will not receive new features, and there will be no new Windows Phone hardware. The initial release was on October 21, 2010:

During the weekend, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore tweeted confirmation of something that has been suspected for many months: Microsoft is no longer developing new features or new hardware for Windows Mobile. Existing supported phones will receive bug fixes and security updates, but the platform is essentially now in maintenance mode.

Microsoft's difficulties in the mobile market are no secret, but for a time the company looked as if it was keeping Windows Mobile as a going concern regardless. Through 2016, Microsoft produced new builds for the Windows Insider program and added new features to Windows Mobile. At around the time of release of the Windows 10 Creators Update in April this year, that development largely ground to a halt. Windows Mobile, which already lacked certain features that were delivered to Windows on the PC, had its development forked. PC Windows development continued on the "Redstone 3" branch (which will culminate in the release of the Fall Creators Update later this month); Windows Mobile languished on a branch named "feature2."

[...] We might well wonder why Microsoft didn't say so sooner and instead strung along not only the platform's fans but even OEM partners; it's hard to imagine that HP would have built its Elite x3 phone had Microsoft been clearer about mobile.

Even with this announcement, there's still speculation that Microsoft is going to bring out a new device—something phone-like but not a phone—that'll compete, somehow, in the mobile space. For all the rumors about a "Surface Phone," though, it's unclear precisely what this device would do that is meaningfully different from anything else on the market or if it will be compelling enough to reverse the company's mobile fortunes. For now, all we can do is mourn: the best mobile platform isn't under active development any more, and the prospects of new hardware to run it on are slim to non-existent.

They should release an app that runs full Windows on an external display when an Android smartphone is docked. Put those 8-10 cores to good use.


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:00PM (5 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:00PM (#580637) Journal

    Congratulations go to Nokia for not putting Android on their hardware.

    Running Android OS on your mobile hardware would be like peeing in your pants to stay warm in the winter. I think I even heard that somewhere before.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:09PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:09PM (#580644) Journal

    So THAT'S why homeless people/drunks do that. I was wondering....

    :)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:24PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:24PM (#580657)

    I think I even heard that somewhere before.

    No, it's scuba divers in wetsuits that do that to stay warm, when in very cold water, during a dive. For that group, it is a real thing. For survival outside the water, seems a bit unwise.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:09PM (#580762)

      The reason for that is that wetsuits are designed to hold a small amount of water that is then warmed by body heat.

      Note that during sub-zero dives, a drysuit is used as the mechanism no longer functions.

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:38PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:38PM (#580735) Homepage Journal

    Our instructor informed us that we could stay warm by pissing in our wetsuits.

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:09PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 11 2017, @08:09PM (#580764) Journal

      I'm glad for you if it works in wetsuits. I doubt it works in blue jeans in the winter. But the real point is that the CEO of Nokia used the "pee yourself in winter to stay warm" as the reason to not put Android on Nokia phones.

      Nokia could possibly have been one of the leading Android phone manufacturers today if their leader had any vision at all. And could understand how having two bickering internal factions in Nokia fighting for insufficient resources would ruin the company.

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