Windows 10 Mobile is dead: The official end of support arrives
December 10, 2019 represents the date of death of Windows 10 Mobile. Microsoft pulls the end off official support, while the Store will probably remain open for a few years.
Windows 10 Mobile is officially dead, and this time it seems there are no ifs and buts. With a Microsoft smartphone in the pipeline in 2020 with Android, and no indication that would suggest the opposite, it seems that the end of the support is definitive. At the beginning of the year, Microsoft had already warned all users who still used it to switch to the competition, with Windows 10 Mobile, which was already given up in January 2019.
No news for a story that had a short duration. The operating system had managed to establish itself with some success in some markets, but it never managed to obtain the necessary success in the key markets and to a few years from the official release it will be ” shut down “. Like? With the end of support from Microsoft.
Windows 10 Mobile, official support ends: What it means?
From 10 December 2019, Windows 10 Mobile will no longer receive any updates, neither of features nor of security, and it will become a platform open to any type of undiscovered bug and malware. Office applications for Windows 10 Mobile will be supported until January 12, 2021, and will continue to receive security updates and patches. Low consolation, given that the SO will be potentially unsafe.
Windows 10 Mobile was officially announced in 2015 together with the Lumia 950, Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 550, three smartphones that exploited the peculiar characteristics of the operating system (extreme lightness, simplified user interface and clear style). The operating system successor to Windows Phone 8.1 but with various stylistic innovations and with a completely new brand, was then distributed on a long list of devices.
A couple of years later, Microsoft pulled the plug from Windows Phone 8.1, while in 2018 – after ceasing production – it put an end to the sale of smarpthone. On December 16, the Microsoft Store of Windows Phone 8.1 will be closed for a story that offers no hope to those who would like to see a happy ending. The Windows 10 Mobile store will remain active at least until the end date of Office app support.
