Joe Belfiore talks about Windows 10 Mobile and makes clear the bleak future he awaits for the platform

o expected bad news is no longer a jug of cold water. We had been chewing it for a long time so that when it was time to digest it it would not be painful, but finally the decision seems inevitable and many will find it difficult to digest news like this.

News especially because comes from the mouth of Joe Belfiore himself, Corporate Vice President of the Windows Operating Systems Group. And it is that after seeing how companies flee from the sinking ship (the last one was HP), now it is Belfiore himself who leaves the platform more than touched through his Twitter account

And it is that through the social network it has left some interesting pills about what is the future of the company in relation to the Windows mobile platform. A development that is no longer of interest to the company, which has no intention of continuing to work on Windows 10 Mobile, both in _software_ and in new _hardware_ that may be released in the future.

They will continue to release security and cumulative updates, but we will not see new versions and updates with news. In this way, the owners of a phone with Windows 10 Mobile will see Windows 10 grow on PC and how new versions of applications for iOS or Android arrive while their terminal is left to their own devices.

It seems therefore, and if we take Belfiore's words as true, that Microsoft throws in the towel It surrenders and will fight no more for trying to rescue a platform that+ the latest market figures already revealed that it was bedridden and with assisted breathing](https://www.xatakawindows.com/windows-phone/no-per-expected-ceases-to-be-disheartening-the-prominence-of-windows-in-mobile-phones-keeps-losing-whole). Without support from the manufacturers, what can you expect when not even Microsoft has fully invested in its platform.

Therefore they will not try to attract developers to their platform in order to increase the catalog of available applications. Microsoft's bet is to focus on iOS and Android (a few days ago we saw how Microsoft Edge arrived in beta form).

Even Belfiore encourages users to choose the platform that interests them the most and as an example it sets itself, justifying its move to Android for the large number of applications you can choose from.

Windows 10 Mobile is dead It cannot be denied when the same company confirms it.You can not expect support from third parties or developers when not even the parents of the creature bet on its survival. So we can only say, rest in peace Windows 10 Mobile.

Source | Windows Central In Xataka Windows | End of 2020 could be the date indicated by Microsoft to stop supporting Windows 10 Mobile