Got a Windows Phone 8 mobe? It's now officially obsolete. Here's why... Microsoft has formally ended support for its Windows Phone platform. Tuesday's monthly software update release marked the official end of support for Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft's last release under the Windows Phone moniker. This means an end to patches and technical support. "There will be no new security updates, non- …
Having been in almost from the very start (my first game release was about 8 months after WP7launched), WinPhone was a fun little platform to develop for. Yes, in the beginning there was no IAP mechanism, ad fill rates were virtually zero and the support site was up and down more regularly than a manic-depressive kangaroo, but XNA (and later Monogame) were great and ultimately what got me interested in mobile development as a whole.
True, it never got the market share I had hoped might happen in those early days (Microsoft doing their usual thing), and the marketplace has collapsed into a similar cess-pit as Play and the App store (a few titles dominant due to big marketing budgets plus a flood of shiteware), but it still remains the mobile platform I got the most downloads and best return from - and had the most fun developing for.
I got out of making mobile games a few years back - largely due to the aforementioned state of the markets on all platforms - but it was fun while it lasted, and the first platform I've developed for seriously since my Atari ST days. Guess I've always had a soft spot for the underdog... guess that means I should start looking at the Switch for my next development platform...
You were not in it from the start if you began at 7
CE then 6.x Win mobile came before mobile 7.
As a hint of things to come, 6.x (and earelier) code needed rewrite for Mobile 7 - MS provided no tools to convert code.
I stopped writing new stuff for windows mobile at that point (only win mobile work after taht was a bit of legacy 6.x app support / enhancement)
(caveat, these were logisitcs apps, not games)
Customers now use apps written for android instead (android devices locked down, about the one good thing to be said for win mobile was MS made it easy to lock down a phone, whereas we use 3rd party specialist software to lock down android)
I'll keep using my Nokia 735 until it dies.
I bought and tried a phone with Windows 10, but ended up giving it to the missus: didn't have Kid's Corner (yes, I use it) and the alternative was crap. Also, Windows 10 just had way too many options/settings: feature creep.
When my Nokia dies, not sure what I'll do.
I'm actually surprised Windows Phone 8 was supported this long, given that it was released in 2012.
Apple were still selling the 4S back then - last update for that was iOS 9.3.5 in 2016.
Wikipedia tells me Android was on version 4.1 back then. I doubt anybody's updating that anymore either.
TL:DR Phones are disposable, and I don't think many people are still running a phone from 2012...
>anybody who disagrees with you is just doing it to be contrary.
It's a free country (sort of) and I'm entitled to express my opinion just as you are, I'm not asking you to agree with mine as I don't have to agree with yours. I'm an atheist but people are free to blindly follow a dead end if they so choose and waste a lot of Sundays/Saturdays etc which could be used more productively or for a two day bender, personally I prefer the two day bender.
Support for my *Nokia* Lumia 520 ended years ago. Yes, I kept getting the (occasional) Microsoft updates... but it's arguable whether that could in any way whatsoever be considered support.
One by one, the decent Nokia stuff it came with was disabled because - horror of horrors - I don't have a Microsoft account. The stuff that remains is useless Microsoft shit - Office, ffs, on a device with a 4" screen? All it can do now is act as a dumb phone - and camera, though the ergonomics on the 520 are so bad you can't get a decent photo out of it.
So MS "support" has consisted entirely of disabling perfectly good Nokia apps. Glad it's finished now.
When I worked for a charity we had to use Windows and of course Windows phones. Enter the craptastic Nokia 420 the phone that didn't keep giving.
Funny how the IT team used Android phones but we mere mortals had to cope with something that even a Galapagos Tortoise could outrun.
Windows Phone is dead? How did it take so long to die?
User picks up supported gadget. Device wakes up. User trie... BARGE!!!! EXCUSE ME!!!! BARGING IN HERE. BEEN SLEEPING FOR THREE DAYS, BUT HERE WE GO... CHECKING FOR UPDATES. User tries t... CHECKING FOR UPDATES. User would like to check th... UPDATES FOUND. STANDBY. ...the weather. User... DOWNLOADING UPDATES. Weath... DOWNLOADING 1 or 17 FILES. Weathe... DOWNLOADING 2 of 17 FILES. "Weather Not Available - Timeout Error." PLEASE REBOOT YOUR DEVICE. DO NOT REBOOT YOUR DEVICE. PLEASE REBOOT YOUR DEVICE. DOWNLOADING 3 of 17 FILES. User is still curious about the weather. Trie... DOWNLOADING 4 of 17 FILES. Weathe... DOWNLOADING 5 of 17 FILES. MANDATORY REBOOT. PLEASE JUST STAND THERE - HOLDING ME GENTLY. DO NOT BOTHER ME WITH YOUR SILLY WEATHER INQUIRY. REBOOTING. .... GOOD MORNING. Weathe... NO YOU DON'T SUNSHINE. DOWNLOADING 6 of 75 FILES. ...etc.
I like my Surface 2 with Windows RT. It's unsupported, which is nice.
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