Microsoft executive admits what we all knew for a long time: Windows Phone is dead

Ah, Windows Phone. From the ashes he was born, and to the ashes he returns: born of a turnaround within the company, the system never left the status of eternal promise.

In theory, it was considered a promising competitor that brought together the best features of iOS and Android. In practice, it never had a user base large enough to attract developers' attention and make its ecosystem a doable option.

All of these are information we are tired of knowing, but Microsoft has chosen to turn a blind eye to them at least until now. Today, the Windows boss Joe Belfiore went to Twitter to admit that the company's move in the mobile world did not find the trace necessary to survive and, basically, not to see more great news or devices carrying its brand.

According to the executive, Microsoft will continue to provide platform support (and, for that, it deserves the seal "did not do more than its obligation"), but new features or products in the summer in the light of day; despite all the efforts of the company, there is no point in continuing to try to fight a lost fight.

Of course, we will continue to provide platform support. Bug fixes, security updates, etc. But designing new features or hardware is not the focus.

We try SO MUCH to encourage app developers. We pay them We create apps for them But the volume of users is too small for most companies to invest.

With that, we can effectively declare what we have known for a long time: the war on mobile operating systems, officially, a dispute with only two sides. “Guerra”, of course, a physical license of mine, because we are talking about a gigantic and increasingly intelligent army of green robots against a small division of highly specialized soldiers, but unable to compete with the mob.

From Microsoft, the next step in the mobile world is clear and has been in place for years: the company is getting better at developing applications for other platforms and will certainly double this effort in the near future. The Edge browser for iOS and Android is an excellent example of this.

Anyway, Windows Phone misses you as a former owner of a Lumia 640 XL, I can say that, as much as the ecosystem in general was deficient and frustrating, the system brought a series of good ideas from the point of view of interaction and design. In the end, less competition is ever positive, and therefore, it will be missed. Go in peace, WP.

via TechCrunch