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2019: End of an era: Microsoft leaves the market of mobile OS
In January, 2019 Microsoft called terms of the termination of support of Windows 10 Mobile — the last mobile operating system of the American corporation.
According to the message on the official site of Microsoft, the company will cease to support Windows 10 Mobile since December 10, 2019. After this day the platform will not receive new features and updates for security, and users will be deprived of a free technical support.
However, as declared in Microsoft, support can be provided third-party to the company or within paid programs. But the technical support service of Microsoft will cease to offer public updates or corrections for Windows 10 Mobile.
On December 10, 2019 support of Windows 10 Mobile of version 1709, and in a case with version 1703 which is used, for example, in the Lumia 640 and 640 XL smartphones will be turned off, it will occur on June 11 the 2019th.
Till March, 2020 users will be able to save in a cloud an image of the operating system with settings and applications. Some services, including backup of photos and data recovery from bekap-copies, will be available a year more after completion of support.
Despite the termination of support of the operating system phones on its basis will function further, and application developers will be able to release further updates for the software. On devices it will be still possible to install applications from Microsoft Store.
Nevertheless, Microsoft recommends to the clients to pass to devices based on Android and iOS. The company will abandon the market of mobile OS after nine years of presence on it.[1]
Microsoft never occupied a significant share in this market. In December, 2018 the share of Windows made only 0.34%, data of StatCounter service demonstrate.
2018: Failure from support of corporate messengers
On April 24, 2018 it became known of closing of corporate messengers of Microsoft for Windows 10 Mobile. The company recommends to users of these services to pass to the competing mobile platforms.
As reported in the section of support on the website of Microsoft, since May 20, 2018 support of applications stops Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams and Yammer for Windows-smartphones. This day programs will stop being available to downloading in shop Microsoft Store, and the software giant will stop developing and supporting them.
 | Though Microsoft retains support of Windows 10 Mobile, we are not concentrated on creation of new features for this system any more. We will continue to invest in mobile applications of Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams and Yammer for iOS and Android and also in desktop versions for Windows and Mac, says the American corporation. |  |
As notes the Softpedia portal, actually Microsoft recommends to users of corporate messengers to switch to the IOS and Android platforms because the corresponding applications will be updated and improve.
Those owners of Windows devices who will set Skype for Business and Yammer till May 20 will be able to use further applications on the gadgets, however updates for them will not be any more, and Microsoft does not guarantee a normal programs runtime further. At this Teams will finally cease to function: in attempt will use this service to be brought to Windows 10 Mobile the connection error. Users of Yammer will be able to work with service via the mobile browser on any device.
The Windows 10 Mobile operating system will be supported by Microsoft to the middle of 2019, however is not going to create new features for it any more. Besides, the release of new devices on this platform is stopped.[2]
2017
Failure from development
On October 9, 2017 Microsoft announced the termination of development of mobile version of the Windows 10 operating system. This solution is caused by weak popularity of a product.
| | Of course, we will continue support of the platform [to release security updates and patches for elimination of vulnerabilities — primas of TAdviser] … Let's fix bugs and to release updates of security systems and other. But the release of new features and devices is not planned — the corporate vice president of division of operating systems of Microsoft Joe Belfiore wrote on the page on social network Twitter. | |
He also noted that Microsoft in every way tried to involve third-party developers in creation of software for Windows 10 Mobile, however attempts were ineffectual.
| | We very much tried to stimulate application developers. We paid money, created programs, but the number of users too little in order that it was possible to invest in these projects — the top manager of Microsoft explained. | |
According to StatCounter service for September, 2017, different versions of Windows are installed only on 0.77% of mobile devices in the world. The most popular OS for smartphones are Android (73.5%) and iOS (19.4%). The Windows platform of 10 Mobile is set, in particular, in a number of models of the Microsoft Lumia and Acer smartphones.
In October, 2017 HP Inc company. announced plans for the termination development of a line of the corporate Elite smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile, having reasoned with it the fact that Microsoft refuses to support this OS and to compete with Google and Apple in the mobile market.
As the president of HP Inc reported. in EMEA region (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) Nick Lazaridis, does not make sense to release Windows smartphones further "" as Microsoft "decided to change strategy" and now "is less focused" on mobile version of Windows.
Plans for the support termination
On August 8, 2017 it became known of plans of Microsoft to stop support and development of Windows 10 Mobile. The corporation expressed the intention to support this OS within one and a half more years. Then the project will be closed.[3]
Mobile devices of the company will receive other OS, for August 8, 2017 the known Andromeda OS code-named. At the same time updating to Andromeda OS for operating Windows-smartphones is not provided.
According to IT analysts, this OS should be modular to be suitable for any form factor of devices therefore need for a separate system for mobile devices like Windows 10 Mobile will disappear.
Earlier the corporation announced the beginning of development of Windows 10 Mobile in a branch code-named of feature2. This insignificant, according to developers, change, should isolate Windows 10 Mobile from other systems of the Windows 10 family. And it became the first step to project closure.
Microsoft is necessary the return porting for Windows 10 Mobile API of the Universal Windows platform (UWP) which are implemented in updates of Windows 10 of Redstone 3 and Redstone 4. It is necessary as Windows 10 Mobile feature2 represents Redstone 2.
Backporting of API will ensure functioning on Windows 10 Mobile of the applications created for Redstone 3 and Redstone 4 that will make OS of more viable in the time which remained it. After backporting stops, OS will quickly lag behind other representatives of the Windows 10 family. As a result smartphones like Lumia 950 and HP Elite x3 will lose support of applications.
2016: Release of Windows 10 Mobile
Windows 10 Mobile is the version of Windows 10 OS for mobile devices with screen diagonal to nine inches.
OS is focused on synchronization with the version of Windows for the PC and broader synchronization of content, "universal" applications, connectivities of devices to the external display and uses of the smartphone as the PC with the interface, a mouse support and keyboards. Smartphones on Windows Phone 8.1 can be updated to Windows 10 Mobile. Some functions can differ depending on hardware compatibility.
The minimum requirements for Windows 10 Mobile are similar to Windows Phone 8:
| System Requirements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Display resolution | RAM | Internal memory | Процессор |
| 960×540 и выше | 1 Гб | Для запуска Windows 10 Mobile
devices are necessary with existence of 8 GB and more internal memories |
Windows 10 Mobile поддерживает ARM-платформу от Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, добавив поддержку для 208, 210, 615, 617, 625, 808, 810, 820 и 830. Development of Windows 10 of Mobile x86 was begun for Intel Atom x3 (architecture). Atom x3 was specified on the Minimum hardware requirements page for Windows 10 Mobile in 2015. Support of this model was excluded from the minimum requirements to a system for Windows 10 Mobile of version 1607. |
| 1440×900 и выше | 2 Гб | ||
| 2048×1152 и выше | 3 Гб | ||
| 2560×2048 и выше | 4 Гб | ||
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