While Microsoft has pledged to continue developing Windows 10 Mobile, but the company has reportedly shelved any plans to launch future Lumia devices and it isn’t expected to have a so-called Surface Phone in market until 2017.
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A report at MSPoweruser explained that the latest trick from GWX.exe, Microsoft’s ever-growing wart on Windows 7 and 8, is to change the behaviour of the “X” button, traditionally meant to signify “close and do nothing”.
The Microsoft phone business still has a dedicated fan in Ballmer, who bragged about his device at a San Francisco dinner hosted by Fortune in March.
Microsoft spent $7.2bn buying Nokia, before writing off $7.6bn on the back of 7,800 job cuts.
BlackBerry’s OS and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform both have worn out their welcome.
Yahoo Tech has reported the size of Windows 10 update for desktop will require 20GB of storage for the 64-bit version.
Increasingly, companies are procuring phones for employees rather than letting workers bring their own devices onto corporate networks, said International Data Corp. analyst John Delaney.
MICROSOFT IS so determined to get people to upgrade to Windows 10 that not even ignoring the upgrade window will save you.
What Microsoft hasn’t said is that it’s getting out of the phone hardware business altogether, but coupled with the news that it has sold its feature phone business to Foxconn (along with the rights to use the Nokia brand) it’s hard to see where the company goes from here.
“With the free Windows 10 upgrade offer ending on 29 July, we want to help people upgrade to the best version of Windows”, Microsoft said in a statement.
Of course, the change wasn’t welcomed by anyone because it turned Windows 10 upgrade process into how malware installations work.
With that in mind, it seems pointless for developers to continue releasing and supporting apps for those two platforms. But BlackBerry Ltd., first, then Apple Inc.’s iPhone and phones running Alphabet Inc.’s Android operating system outpaced Microsoft. It shifted strategy in 2010, targeting consumers with the renamed Windows Phone software.
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Nokia dominated around 40 percent of the world’s mobile phone industry in 2008 before it was eclipsed by the rise of touch-screen smartphones.
