Windows Phone 8.1 is really dead

Windows Phone is dead. Three years after the launch of Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft announces the end of its support. In other words, it will no longer be entitled to any updates, but the system still works.

As usual palliative care, we saw it with Windows XP, Microsoft prefers to put an end to the therapeutic fury on Windows Phone 8.1. The end of support for its mobile OS has been effective since yesterday. That is, it will simply not be updated anymore, even for security patches. In other words, the OS is obsolete, but that does not mean it will stop working.

The - rare - people still using the OS can always use it. However, Microsoft strongly encourages users to change mobile phones, preferably for a Windows 10 terminal, although there are now no recent Windows 10 terminals. So we probably need to turn to an Android smartphone ... unless Microsoft releases us a "Surface Phone" in the coming months.

This is in any case the end of a chaotic story for Windows Phone that despite good ideas never managed to convince, especially the fault of an application park far too restricted to really fight Android and iOS. Except for major changes, Windows 10 Mobile may well experience the same fate in the coming years.