Anyone who owns a Windows 10 Mobile phone needn't worry. OK, there are probably only a few..
Microsoft is to end support for Windows Phone.
It's a shame. Had Microsoft actually marketed Windows Mobile/Phone well, it could have been a serious competitor to Android and/or iOS. It was a fairly serious competitor to Symbian, and the various proprietary OSs on Mobiles previously, and with the redesign that came with the name change to Windows Phone could have carried on.
I had an HTC Tytn II (still got it somewhere). While Windows Mobile was a clunky attempt to force a Windows desktop like experience on a mobile, Windows Phone 7 and 8 were (IMO) excellent mobile OSes. Ironically, Microsoft decided to capitalise on the start screen introduced in Windows Phone, in Windows 8. Thus attempting (in a clunky way) to force a mobile phone like experience on to Windows Desktop.
Sadly, Microsoft don't seem to understand the Mobile device market. Yes, they have the surface, which is a good tablet, but their strategy for marketing it seems like a muddled attempt to sell both more windows desktops and their cloud services rather than a serious attempt to establish a competitor to Google or Apple.
They seem to view tablets and mobiles as extensions to PCs. This is a good view, to an extent. The problem is they see the mobile phone or tablet as the same device as a PC. To a large extent ,they are. The way we use them though dictates that they have different user interfaces. Microsoft don't seem to understand this.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/11/...-support-ends/