quietly, Microsoft Windows 10 Mobile has carried to the grave Without fanfare, on a sober question-and-answer page, the software group has shared with recently Updates of any kind would still be up to 10. December 2019 offered.
at the Latest Smartphones with the Microsoft operating system for old iron. While you work beyond the date. However, because security vulnerabilities are no longer closed, are at the mercy of the devices, any hazards defenseless. Microsoft recommends that the remaining customers switching to an Android phone or an iPhone.
From the abrupt, only a few are likely to be affected: Windows 10 Mobile bobs up and down for years. The last of the devices have been brought to the end of 2017 from largely unknown manufacturers on the market. Microsoft last own phone, the Lumia 650 that came in February on sale in 2016.
Good idea came much too late
three years ago, it was clear that Microsoft would not create a serious Alternative to Google and Apple. Although Microsoft had issued Manager Joe Belfiore last fall on Twitter slogans. However, the made only the clearer, but how funny it is to obtain a platform with a few Updates on life, without seeking to develop further. Microsoft wanted to, it seemed, the Failure is not concede. Joe Belfiore had also shown the Finger at the developers: “We have tried by all means to attract a developer for us, paid the money and the Software provided for you. But for many, the user numbers are too low.” And because many of the essential Apps were not available, were the user numbers are not expected to increase substantially.
Brandon Watson, with a long history of Manager for Windows Phone, leaking the debt, in turn, the device manufacturers and the mobile operators: This would have left Windows Mobile and previously the predecessor to Windows Phone on the left. Unlike Belfiore, Watson claims that Microsoft have had the backing of the developers. Microsoft has certainly invested a lot of time and energy, the normal Windows version for the Desktop and the mobile version to merge different Apps without a lot of effort for all device types and screen sizes to develop. A good idea. However, as the “Universal Windows Platform” the form was accepted, left the train for a long time.
another Ex-employee, the long-time Windows chief Terry Myerson calls Android as an insurmountable hurdle. Google had Microsoft’s business model: Android with Google services almost to zero, while Microsoft was to license revenue. Microsoft has made the manufacturers also have strict requirements for the Hardware could not keep with the technical development. Some suggest that, as envy at Apple had been using in the game: Microsoft wanted a similar level of control, as it is the iPhone group had since the beginning.
Nokia purchase was put off a bug
Finally, Microsoft has Takeover the device manufacturer with the Nokia. In September 2013, Microsoft bought the Nokia mobile phone division for € 5.5 billion. At that time, Nokia was already difficult, as the Finns had not managed their dominant Position from the time of the “dumb” phones into the Smartphone age, she says. After this Deal the other manufacturers like Samsung and HTC went back to her commitment – probably due to the not unjustified fear to be only a Junior partner.
in 2010, Microsoft had a System at the Start, the competition was technically in almost all respects superior. However, due to a bad market strategy, it has failed. Often in Microsoft’s history it was exactly the opposite. (Editorial Tamedia)
Created: 23.01.2019, 10:17 PM