The countdown begins: there is less than a year left until the latest version of Windows Mobile is no longer supported

Time passes for everything and everyone, but in technology this maxim becomes much more important. What is new today, after a month may already have been eclipsed by a more evolved release. Progress is such that having support that offers a minimum of updates is essential to use technology with basic security conditions.

We talk about _hardware_ and _software_. We are very interested in the support that manufacturers offer their productsFor this reason, when it is announced that a development is coming to an end, that a product has no further journey, we have to get used to the idea that the moment in which we may have to make the leap to another model and go through the checkout is closer and closer.

Windows on mobile, a winding road

This is the case of Microsoft and its Windows mobile platform. A story that began with an ambitious goal: to compete with iOS and Android. And at first it did, they were other times... until it deviated from the marked path and perhaps Microsoft's purchase of Nokia marked the beginning of the end. Wrong decisions, lack of support from developers, the public, carriers, and even Microsoft itself, got us to where we are today Windows 10 Mobile, the version 1709 will be the last to be supported.

Windows Mobile has the hours numbered and they remember it in MSPU. There is less than a year left for the latest version released by Microsoft for its mobile platform to stop receiving support. It will be on December 10, 2019. It is not strange, since we see it regularly in Windows. The difference is that while in the desktop version you can evolve to a later and improved version of Windows, in mobile the cessation of support directly marks the end of the road. This is all friends, as the popular phrase of the Tini Toons says.

Remember that Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update stopped receiving security updates on October 9, 2018, 2 years, 1 month, and 23 days after it hit the market. For its part, Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update will do so on June 11, 2019, that is, 2 years, 1 month, and 17 days. Finally, the latest version, Windows 10 Mobile Spring Update, will see the end of support on December 10, 2019 or what is the same 2 years, 2 months and 2 days since it hit the market on October 9, 2017.

In the absence of knowing if this year 2019 Microsoft will show a renewed family of mobile devices with a renewed operating system, for now the most interesting thing for many users of the platform will be go testing other proposals and that is that although your phone still works perfectly, the connected life that we lead today does not make it advisable to have in your hands a terminal with outdated _software_.

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