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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.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:02PM (1 child)
My wife was having trouble printing an image from windows (she was yelling from another room) so i told her "Ctrl + P".
Next thing i know, she's trying to tell her mother the same thing: her mother, who clicks "Print" 500 times because the printer doesn't start printing right away, until her print queue is so full nothing will print and who keeps "Losing facebook" on her windows 10 laptop.
Funny how my wife thinks her mother will learn and remember Ctrl + P when she can't even print from a dialog.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:44PM
Mom saves everything she ever cared about on the Desktop of her Mac. Should a document somehow go into the Documents folder, she will never find it again.
One day she asked me "If I keep saving my email, will I run out of gigabytes?"
"No you have so many gigabytes that you will never run out." Actually she has eighty of them.
One day I showed her how to do a Cleanup By Name of her desktop.
How did she react?
"How do you put it back?" Meaning she wanted to know how to put all of her documents in little piles.
The next time I visited her Desktop had lots of little piles of documents."
She drops me at Starbucks. "Come in Mom and I'll treat you to a Frappucino"
"I've got to go grocery shopping."
But now I speak Mom's special dialect of English:
"All work and no play makes Patty a dull girl."
Mom thought her Frappucino was the best thing since sliced bread.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]