Microsoft Confirms Windows Phone Is Officially Dead
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We’ve known for a while that the Windows Phone was dying. But over the weekend, Microsoft has publicly confirmed that the platform is — officially — dead.
Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s Windows 10 chief, admitted in a series of tweets on Sunday that the company will no longer be developing new features or hardware for the Windows 10 Mobile operating system. Belfiore tweeted that Microsoft will still issue bug fixes and security updates to users of the platform, but that new features and hardware are no longer the “focus.”
In another tweet, the Microsoft senior vice president said that the company had tried “very hard” to incentivize app development and foster the app economy on Windows 10.
In some cases, Belfiore said his team paid developers money or wrote apps for them. But, in the end, the “volume of users is too low for most companies to invest,” he added.
Of course we’ll continue to support the platform.. bug fixes, security updates, etc. But building new features/hw aren’t the focus.
