Windows 10 Mobile is history: starting today

We already knew, but it never hurts to remember it in case someone has forgotten. As of today, all users who continue to use a phone equipped with Windows 10 Mobile, have stopped receiving official support from Microsoft Your phone has left abandoned to its fate.

It's not news that caught us by surprise, because it's been almost a year since we learned that Microsoft would stop supporting Windows 10 Mobile. The failed mobile operating system from Redmond had been dead for months and this was nothing more than the confirmation of an end announced a long time ago.

The beginning of the end

Shortly before 2020 begins we can say that Windows 10 Mobile is history December 10, 2029 will be marked as the end of the operating system that came to stand up to iOS and Android and that turned out to be one of the great failures of Microsoft throughout its history. Thus we are left with the fact that Windows 10 Mobile, in version 1709, was the last to have support.

There will not be many people who still use a terminal under Windows 10 Mobile, so the impact should not be important. However, it is more the feeling that it leaves empty for what it promised one day when it hit the market and that nevertheless, in the end, came to nothing. Not even the purchase of Nokia served to give it a breath of air, as it even ended up taking the once-successful Finnish company ahead.This is Microsoft's statement:

Bad decisions by Microsoft, lack of support from developers, scarce offer in terminals, scarce presence in the catalogs of the operators... perhaps it is not a single cause that is responsible for this ending, but at this point it doesn't matter anymore

Starting now, everyone with a Windows 10 Mobile phone has a new date. As of March 10, 2020, will no longer be able to make backup copies of the configuration and applications that they have installed, although the company recommends that before tomorrow the corresponding copies are made manually.

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The process goes through the route Settings > Update and security > Backup > More options > Get backup now for Be protected in case you have a problem.A backup that also has a deadline, since as of December 10, 2020, the backup copy for the restoration of the device will no longer be operational."

From this moment on, if they have not already done so, for all users of the platform, they should start testing in to make the leap to iOS or Androidand it is that even if your phone still works perfectly, the connected life that we lead today does not make it advisable to have a terminal with out-of-date software in your hands.