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Windows Phone dies today
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An end of an era
by Tom Warren@tomwarren Jul 11, 2017, 10:28am EDT

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Microsoft is killing off Windows Phone 8.1 support today, more than three years after the company first introduced the update. The end of support marks an end to the Windows Phone era, and the millions of devices still running the operating system. While most have accepted that the death of Windows Phone occurred more than a year ago, AdDuplex estimates that nearly 80 percent of all Windows-powered phones are still running Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, or Windows Phone 8.1. All of these handsets are now officially unsupported, and only 20 percent of all Windows phones are running the latest Windows 10 Mobile OS.

Windows Phone 8.1 was a big update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system, and included the company’s Cortana digital assistant, a new notification center, UI changes, and updates to the core mobile OS. It marked one of Microsoft’s biggest efforts with its Windows Phone work, but it wasn't successful at competing with Android and iOS. 99.6 percent of all new smartphones now run Android or iOS, and Microsoft has given up producing its own Lumia-branded hardware as a result.
"Windows 10 Mobile still exists, but with not much support"

While Microsoft still supports Windows 10 Mobile, it’s not clear what that support will include in the future. Microsoft pushed updates to Windows Phone 8 devices, but the software giant barely included any feature updates in the recent Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update. Microsoft is adding a number of features to the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update for PCs, but the company has not extended these to the mobile version in testing. Some rumors suggest that Microsoft has forked its Windows Mobile development into a “feature2” branch that will simply maintain the operating system until support ends in 2018.

Microsoft has shied away from officially killing off its phone OS efforts, but it’s been evident over the past year that the company is no longer focusing its efforts on Windows for phones. Microsoft gutted its phone business last year, resulting in thousands of job cuts. During Microsoft’s recent Build and Inspire conferences, CEO Satya Nadella dropped the company’s mantra of “mobile-first, cloud-first” in favor of a focus on what he describes as the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. This new area of focus means Microsoft is now working on multi-device scenarios and cloud-powered technologies that don’t always involve Windows. Microsoft’s new mobile strategy now appears to involve making iOS and Android devices better.
 

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Windows Phone Is Dead, Long Live Microsoft's Smartphone Dream

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Microsoft’s mobile operating system has left the building. Windows Phone is no more.

While Microsoft’s previously announced ‘end of support’ date for the mobile operating system of July 11 2017 has now passed, your Windows Phone handset is not going to suddenly stop working or fail to switch on. But the final glimmer of support from its parent is now extinguished.

To be fair, this should not come as a surprise to any keen Windows Phone follower. Microsoft delivered the twenty-four months of support for this cycle of Windows Phone 8, although as Steve Litchfield highlights on All About Windows Phone, the OS has not seen any updates to the operating system for over two years and there has been a quiet but not highly promoted push to have users update their handsets to Windows 10 Mobile.

Almost all of the recent Windows Phone handsets can be upgraded to a version of Windows 10 Mobile. Although labeled as ‘mobile’ it is an edition of Windows 10 and is part of the Microsoft’s unified approach to providing Windows over multiple devices. Users moving up to Windows 10 Mobile from Windows Phone will discover many of the applications that stopped supporting Windows Phone over the last year are available after updating the OS.
Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL (image: Ewan Spence)

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Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL (image: Ewan Spence)

Since the launch of Windows Phone in 2010 (as Windows Phone 7) Microsoft has struggled to keep up with the visibility and desirability of the Android and iOS platforms. Thanks to Nokia’s support of Windows Phone, Redmond’s platform has had a long and arguably productive lifespan for those who committed to it. But unfortunately in the era of apps and web services requiring a significant user base Windows Phone never picked up the critical mass of users required.

Windows 10 Mobile started from a lower market share than Windows Phone and never had the advantages that the former platform Phone had (including the presence and partners using Windows Mobile 6.0 and Nokia’s adoption of the platform while it had a notable retail presence) and it remains the very definition of a niche player.

Microsoft’s mobile ambitions now are focused on the other side of the equation, as it provides applications and cloud based services to iOS and Android devices as well as those using Windows 10 Mobile. These bring users into Microsoft’s cloud-based ecosystem and each new service used increases the utility of Redmond’s cloud.

Windows Phone is dead. While Windows 10 Mobile offers an operating system for the smartphone generation, Microsoft’s mobile ambitions have moved on from the pure OS play.

Now read why Microsoft continues to update Windows 10 Mobile…

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Closing the books on Microsoft’s Windows Phone
Android and iOS are the last major smartphone platforms standing.
by Rani Molla@ranimolla Jul 17, 2017, 3:33pm EDT

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Reports of Microsoft’s smartphone demise have been ... pretty much on point.

Last week, the company announced it was ending support for Windows Phone 8.1, the latest in a series of moves marking the end of the Windows Phone. These have also included saying the company was no longer focusing on phones and laying off mobile phone staff last year after its disastrous acquisition of Nokia and general inability to compete with Google Android for handset deals and consumer interest.

The writing was on the wall, with Microsoft’s smartphone platform market share nearing zero — 0.1 percent globally in the first quarter of 2017, according to research firm Gartner. In the past six years, operating systems like BlackBerry and Symbian have also gone under as smartphones ceded ground to Apple and Google.

Google’s Android now owns about 86 percent of the global smartphone market share. Apple’s iOS iPhone has a smaller market share, though its phones are much more expensive and thus take an outsized chunk of revenue.
Global smartphone market share Global smartphone market share

It’s worth noting that Microsoft wasn’t late to the smartphone market.

Its Windows Mobile was one of the first touch-based mobile operating systems in the early 2000s, used by handset makers like Motorola, Palm and Samsung. But like other mobile platforms of the era, it lacked power and sophistication, designed for an era of poky PDAs and “pocket PC” devices. When Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, with desktop-class software capabilities and multi-touch controls, Microsoft was nowhere near competitive.

Microsoft announced its first iteration of the Windows Phone at the Mobile World Congress trade show in 2010, when Android was already taking off. The Windows Phone was visually compelling and critically applauded, and some thought it could be big. Research firm IDC even predicted in 2011 that Microsoft’s phone would overtake the iPhone by 2015.

That didn’t happen. Windows Phone’s market share peaked at just over 3 percent in 2013, according to Gartner. The following year, as market share slid, Microsoft acquired Nokia for $7.2 billion in a last-ditch effort to save Microsoft’s smartphone business with an integrated hardware-software business model like Apple’s.

But it was too late, as were all Windows Phone advances.

At Recode’s Code conference this year, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he regretted that the company was “too slow in cases to recognize the need for new capability, particularly in hardware.” The iPhone did just that, and revolutionized the smartphone and the world in general. Google’s Android took the smartphone to the masses — the real “pocket PC.” And now Microsoft, once the world’s dominant platform company, has retreated.
 

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Microsoft isn't the company it used to be. They use to have great leadership like Steve Balmer.

Who can forget his sage observation on that upstart company which introduced a phone without a keyboard :smile:

[video=youtube;eywi0h_Y5_U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U[/video]
 

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This means Nokia is up lorry.

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Nokia is now using android.

MicroShit owns Nokia leh:



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Microsoft writes off $7.6B, admits failure of Nokia acquisition

'Monumental mistake' by former CEO Steve Ballmer comes home to roost

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Microsoft today wrote off billions of dollars related to its Nokia acquisition, saying it's taking an "impairment charge" of $7.6 billion, or nearly the full amount it paid for the Finnish firm's smartphone business and patents last year.

The announcement slapped the failure sticker on the last major move made by former CEO Steve Ballmer, who pushed for the Nokia deal in his final months in office against objections by, among others, Satya Nadella before he was elevated to the chief executive's chair.

"It was a mistake to begin with," said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. "A monumental mistake. Microsoft had no business being in the cut-throat, low-margin phone business. Who's making money in phones besides Apple?"

Microsoft announced the purchase of Nokia's phone assets in September 2013 -- just weeks after Ballmer said he would step down -- and finalized the deal in April 2014. The total purchase price ended up as approximately $7.9 billion, according to an April 2015 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

"Microsoft will record a charge in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2015 for the impairment of assets and goodwill in its Phone Hardware segment, related to the NDS business," Microsoft said in a statement Wednesday, referring to the Nokia Devices and Services division it acquired.

"Impairment" is a term used to describe the situation when the market value of a business is less than what's carried on the books. In such scenarios, corporations are required to balance accounts by taking a non-cash charge to the tune of the difference. No cash is transferred, although the write-down will impact Microsoft's June quarter earnings and its fiscal-year numbers. The money was already spent, Gold pointed out.

Previously, Microsoft had carried $5.5 billion in "goodwill" from the Nokia acquisition, and another $4.5 billion in intangible assets, the bulk of the latter representing the patents it bought from the Finnish firm. Because "goodwill" is the difference between purchase price and actual assets, tangible or otherwise, writing off the entire amount, as Microsoft just did, signals that the company grossly overpaid.

Today's write-off was Microsoft's largest ever, exceeding by 23% the $6.2 billion charge it took in 2012 to account for the failure of its 2007 purchase of online marketing and advertising company aQuantive.

"Give Nadella a lot of credit for stepping up here," said Gold, referring to the CEO's decision to write down the deal and move on.

Jan Dawson, chief analyst with Jackdaw Research, echoed that in an analysis he posted shortly after Microsoft's announcement. "The key point is that Microsoft has at this point basically unburdened itself of the value of the acquisition, such that if it does have to wind the business down it likely won't have to take another significant impairment charge," Dawson wrote.

Along with the write-off, Microsoft announced it would lay off about 7,800 employees, most of them working in its device division, specifically the phone group. Those layoffs, as well as other restructuring charges, will cost the company another $750 million to $850 million, Microsoft said. The layoffs will be in addition to the 18,000 workers Microsoft cut loose last year, the company's largest-ever reduction.

When the layoffs wrap up, Microsoft will have retained just one out of every five former Nokia employees it inherited, Dawson calculated.

Nadella tried to explain the decision in his email to the troops.

"We are moving from a strategy to grow a standalone phone business to a strategy to grow and create a vibrant Windows ecosystem including our first-party device family," Nadella said. "In the near-term, we'll run a more effective and focused phone portfolio while retaining capability for long-term reinvention in mobility."

Gold interpreted that as a vastly scaled-back smartphone business, with fewer models, that would likely resemble the niche strategy Microsoft has pursued with its Surface line of tablets-cum-notebooks, especially the Surface Pro 3. "If Microsoft wants to do something unique for business, that's fine, that's what he's pointing at," said Gold.

Dawson agreed that Microsoft will probably reduce the number of different Lumia models, but read Nadella's comment differently. "I would expect them to pare the number of devices, but it doesn't sound like they're abandoning its strategy of trying to appeal to a broad swath of consumers. They'll have a high-end [model], low-end [models]," he said.

Nor did he see any logic to focusing, if that's what Microsoft did, on business customers, although years ago many analysts believed the firm would, in fact, cater to its best customers, enterprises, with its smartphones. "The fact is that business users are just the same as anyone else," Dawson said. "They want phones they like to use, that allow them to do not just work but personal stuff, too."

Microsoft said that the layoffs and restructuring, including the incurred costs, would be substantially completed by the end of the year, and wrapped up by the end of Microsoft's fiscal year, or by June 30, 2016.

The company will release more information about the write-off and the restructuring charges when it files its end-of-fiscal-year report with the SEC later this month. Nadella and CFO Amy Hood will undoubtedly face questions from Wall Street on the moves during the next earnings call, slated for July 21.
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I see lattepanda type tech going to change office environment. No more desktop pc, history, carry lattepanda in you pocket to work or anywhere to access yr ms office and use yr mobile phone internet for data.
 

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Apple IPhone did not start as a brilliant idea phone but through a phenomenon which even shocked Jobbie.

Yes Jobbie want to get into telecommunication industry after see nokia success and what is next fir nokia and blackberry?

Then clever Taiwanese Chinese came up with palm size mini computer board with 1G ram. That is it.

He took the idea to telecom companies and AT&T give him a chance unconditional to access the mobile phone technology.

Then Jobbie came up w iphone exoectibg to sell 50,000 units a month only. He put in 20 games Mario game type into his phone.

During this time the Computer studies in uni are teaching games tech software coding.

Many students jumped into it creating simple jump and collide games. But hv problems selling them to EC games coy.

EC games doninate the computer games industry and control what they think will sell like footballs and Mario type games.

So the students hacked Jobbie iphone coding and slip their games into his phones. They sell well and Jobbie noticed so many illegal games in his phones but the sales of his phones shoot up 200%.

Then his phone get popular users use it to play games.

Jobbie was smart gather all the game developers to help them secure against bugs and charge 10% commission for every game sold in his phones and release his apple SDK to developers and his phone boomed 1000% instantly.

The rest is history for Apple. Not that Jobbie has talent or super visionary person.

More like lucky this time. He even said can forget about biz plans but need luck too.

So in a nutshell his iphone sells not becos of making simple phone calls but from games and touch screen technology. Then he put keypad into touch screen which make good for game developer.

Timing my friends. At that time Game developers are looking for ways to sell rheir games and jobbie iPhone came in handy they hacked his phone to sell their game products.


 
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The rest is history for Apple. Not that Jobbie has talent or super visionary person.

More like lucky this time. He even said can forget about biz plans but need luck too.

So in a nutshell his iphone sells not becos of making simple phone calls but from games and touch screen technology. Then he put keypad into touch screen which make good for game developer.

Timing my friends. At that time Game developers are looking for ways to sell rheir games and jobbie iPhone came in handy they hacked his phone to sell their game products.


People call him a visionary not because of one product but because he had a track record of successes. Must look at the history of Steve Jobs successes e.g. Apple, Next, .....iMac,iPod, iPhone, etc.

Compare him to our own home grown Woo who started Creative Technologies. Today his company is still only makes sound cards.
Bill Gates who is the richest man in the US made his $$$$ by copying Steve Jobs ideas on the Mac OS, Zune,.... The joke was that Apple was Microsoft's R&D.

Even android was a copy of IOS. Eric Schmidt who was the CEO of Google also sat in Apple's board of governor & Steve Job made the mistake of showing his ideas on the iPhone. Schmidt took the ideas & shared it with his colleagues at Google & they started the android thing.
https://www.cnet.com/news/i-resigne...-the-right-reasons-says-googles-eric-schmidt/
 

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It was Xerox that change the way computer work. Xerox invented the mouse click codings and the top line File Tool Help drop down list program on the top of the screen.

Click the File get a drop down list Name Setup Exit... and so on. And first time letters are white colour instead of green on black back ground. Impoved on graphic card also happen at the same time.

Xerox showed it to Jobbie and Jobbie took it to start his apple computer. Luck was with him again and it become innovative new PC.

Bill Gate start his PC compete w apple on lower cheaper PC and use DOS program from IBM.

Jobbie took MS to court and loss the case becos the drop dowm list program was from Xerox but not his own invention. Shit him he borrowed from Xerox never return it to Xerox.

More like jobbie has business luck and Opportunist to get to see and try it first.

What visionary? The ipad and ipod are progressive technology advancement with touch screen tech from Xerox also.

The ipod came about the mp3 to mp4 digital compression technology for video and sound in PC development. Compressed 1Mb to 10Kb is the new data compression tech in mp4.

Nothing new and jobbie only change tweet the technology.

Any thing else?


People call him a visionary not because of one product but because he had a track record of successes. Must look at the history of Steve Jobs successes e.g. Apple, Next, .....iMac,iPod, iPhone, etc.

Compare him to our own home grown Woo who started Creative Technologies. Today his company is still only makes sound cards.
Bill Gates who is the richest man in the US made his $$$$ by copying Steve Jobs ideas on the Mac OS, Zune,.... The joke was that Apple was Microsoft's R&D.

Even android was a copy of IOS. Eric Schmidt who was the CEO of Google also sat in Apple's board of governor & Steve Job made the mistake of showing his ideas on the iPhone. Schmidt took the ideas & shared it with his colleagues at Google & they started the android thing.
https://www.cnet.com/news/i-resigne...-the-right-reasons-says-googles-eric-schmidt/
 
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And MS coding technology leap faster that even Jobbie has to copy them.

Heard of the HttpRequest coding invented by MS for their email tech. This coding change the internet completely and FaceBook or social media was found on the back of this invention.

MS gave away this coding free and opens up the internet that is today.
 
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