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Windows 10 Mobile support ending: Microsoft says go to iOS or Android
Are you among the few people left still using a Windows 10 Mobile phone? Even Microsoft has been suggesting that your time to embrace an iPhone or Android handset is long overdue.
This is the final year Microsoft will provide "support" for Windows 10 Mobile, and the company has published a page where you can learn more about nursing your device toward its final days.
Yes, the handset should continue to work after Dec. 10, 2019, the last official day for product and security updates. After that, though, the phone is likely on borrowed time, though Microsoft says automatic or manual creation of new device backups for settings and some applications will continue for three more months, ending March 10, 2020. For that matter, some services including photo uploads and restoring a device from an existing device backup may continue to work for up to a year more.
Still, for most of you, you'll want to start the long goodbye now. And for some versions of Windows Mobile the end of the line comes as soon as June, so consult that online support page for details.
(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Wednesday January 23 2019, @02:02AM (4 children)
Support for personal computing on Windows 10 has also ended. It's all either corporate or public computing now. Do they have any recommendations for that?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 23 2019, @05:45PM (3 children)
Microsoft barely ever supported "personal" computing in the first place - the bulk of the market doesn't do that.
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(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Wednesday January 23 2019, @07:57PM (2 children)
I dunno. On DOS, what happened on my computer tended to stay on my computer unless I took effort to get something off the machine. Even with a packet driver. Using Win 3.1 with winsock, (to my knowledge) windows generally wasn't broadcasting onto the internet unless I ran something to do so.
By comparison, I've heard rumors that the enterprise edition of Windows might not be broadcasting things over the internet. But in general Window is sending info about you, what you have and what you do out automatically. You can ask it to do less of that, temporarily, but if you are using Windows, you are using it in public.
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 23 2019, @08:29PM (1 child)
Um... those would be false. We are putting Enterprise in a VM on our device (at LTSB now, going to LTSC soon) and when I have the Ubuntu host keep tabs on network traffic in and out of the VM, just sitting at desktop Enterprise 10 is chattering away with Microsoft all the time, until we turn off the NAT adapter in the VM, then it gets all sulky and chews up 100% of a thread doing something in its "update services" which you can kill, but other parts of the OS restart them.
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(Score: 2) by DeVilla on Thursday January 24 2019, @12:46AM
Well, that's just great. The one thing I didn't wish I was wrong about ... and that's what I got wrong. I new office was chattie,