by Surur
3 weeks
Windows Phone is officially exiting support on the 10th December 2019, with devices running the OS no longer receiving any security updates or fixes. This is, of course, ignoring the fact that no significant new devices have been ...
by Anmol
2 months
Microsoft today published a bizarre commercial featuring Microsoft Interns singing and dancing all around the Microsoft campus. Titled “Microsoft the Musical”, the musical talks about the history of the company. Micros...
by Rahul
3 months
The project to get Windows 10 for ARM onto old Windows 10 Mobile phones has made more progress, with another set of capabilities about to come to handsets running the desktop OS. Gustave Monce, one of the leaders of the WoA proje...
by Rahul
4 months
Many tech pundits termed Windows Phone as a colossal failure; some even hold the view that the demise of Windows Phone is the biggest failure of Microsoft. Some, including the former head of Windows and Windows Phone Terry Myerson...
by Rahul
4 months
HP was one of the few companies who decided to build Windows-based smartphone despite the fact that Windows Phone didn’t see much success and while HP’s smartphone strategy was ambitious, Microsoft quickly abandoned th...
5 months
It’s almost July 2019, so you’re probably not using Windows Phone 8.x devices anymore. If you are, you should know that Microsoft will no longer be delivering app updates to your devices. Developers of such apps can st...
by Surur
5 months
It is rare to see a company owning up to their mistakes but in a Techcrunch interview published yesterday ex-Microsoft CEO and founder Bill Gates just did, calling losing the smartphone market to Google’s Android his “...
by Pradeep
5 months
Last month, we reported that WhatApp app on Windows Phone devices will stop working after 12/31/2019. It looks like WhatsApp has now updated its support page with new info regarding its support for Windows Phone platform. As per t...
by Surur
5 months
In a video published by Windows Dev Docs Laura Buttler, a Microsoft vice president, revealed some secrets about high profile cancelled Windows Phones. She revealed that the Nokia McLaren would have had a camera even better than ...
by Rahul
6 months
Update 30.05.2019: WhatsApp is now notifying users about the date of the end of support for Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile in the app(via plaffo). The message roughly translates to: “Microsoft has terminated support for...
by Surur
6 months
We reported yesterday on the demise of the CBS All Access UWP app, reportedly due to Microsoft “discontinuing production of this device”. While CBS references Windows 10 tablet we assume the root cause is Windows 10 Mobile act...
by Surur
7 months
Microsoft broke another promise to Windows Phone users by breaking support for Windows Phone 8.1 in the Microsoft Store 7 months early. Since November clicking on a Store link in the web store would not open the phone Store app at...