The slow death of Windows phones is a setback to Microsoft, to be sure. This is a huge blessing in disguise for Microsoft.
Microsoft Corporate VP of Windows Terry Myerson " When you stop investing in these things, it's super hard, super, super hard to restart," Myerson tells Foley.
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It sounds like Microsoft has: Apart from a cameo on HP's new high-end Elite X3 smartphone, the Windows 10 Mobile operating system didn't rate any kind of appearance at Microsoft's most recent Surface hardware event.Īnd in an interview with ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley this week, Windows boss Terry Myerson says the major reason that Microsoft is still working on its Windows 10 Mobile operating system is more as an investment in technology than an effort to build a commercially viable product.īy continuing to work on Windows 10 Mobile, Myerson says, Microsoft generally gets better at working with cellular devices and with ARM processors - the same kind of energy-efficient chips for smartphones that Apple has been using in its latest MacBooks, but that Windows for PCs has never fully supported. It's time to let Windows Phone go, and move on. With 1% of global market share, Microsoft Windows' chances of becoming a major player in the smartphone game are basically dead.