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"The raw numbers are shocking: Microsoft sold a minuscule 2.3 million Lumia phones last quarter, down from 8.6 million a year ago. Phone revenue declines will only ?steepen? during the current quarter, chief financial officer Amy Hood warned during a conference call. That?s dragged down...

WM10 is designed to support tap to pay, but it needs someone to develop an app that's supported by at least one of the credit card providers. It's on Microsoft's list of coming attractions, but, AFAIK, no one has done it yet. The question is whether the user base is large enough to convince...

FREE in the case of Win10 means ?there?s no charge for an update to the OS you already bought. The only costs are (a) it may introduce a variety of new problems on your machine, (b) you?ll have less control over your OS; and (c) you?ll have to work pretty hard on privacy controls to minimize...

Re: People's app is terrible in windows 10 mobile So is it true that you can't pin people on a live tile to your home screen in WM10? That has been one of my absolute favorite features in 8.1 and it's a place where Windows has a real edge over Android and iOS. Unless they're planning to...

I can't convince you because I couldn't convince myself. I recently transitioned from my Icon to a 6s and I've been very happy with the iPhone, so I'm curious about what makes iOS so underwhelming for you. I do miss the control that live tiles give me over the UI, and I am also a fan of...

On its Lifecycle support page at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?sort=PN&alpha=Windows%2010&Filter=FilterNO, MS indicates that mainstream support for all versions of Windows 10 will last until 10/13/2020, except for Windows Mobile, where support is scheduled to end more than...

You're right that Symbian was a burning platform. Nokia, like MS and RIM, failed to anticipate what Apple saw -- consumers would love a phone that could do a whole lot more than email and phone calls. (As Steve Jobs famously described the iPhone at launch, "an iPod, a revolutionary phone, and...

Except that MS was in the phone business and had sold millions of Windows Mobile phones before Apple launched the first iPhone.When Apple entered the market, MS was confident that the iPhone was the wrong device at the wrong price. In the years since, MS has tried hard and spent a lot of money...

From Tom's Hardware - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/smartphone-sales-single-digit-growth,30694.html The IDC doesn?t expect Windows? market share in smartphones to grow much in the coming years, despite Microsoft?s heavy investment in promoting the platform (including offering it as a free...

Forbes Welcome: A Series Of Unfortunate Tech Predictions - Microsoft To Exit The Mobile Arms Race

As of now, on this board there are at least three threads, with a total of five different users, reporting exactly the same thing: all files deleted after a Win10 update. Maybe all these users were less careful than they should have been, but blaming the victim adds insult to injury. Win10 is...

I didn?t think MS was even trying to lure iPhone and Android users over to the 950 series phones, but apparently I was wrong. MS has launched App Comparison in the Google Play Store. It's an app that looks at the apps on a user?s Android phone and points out which ones are available in Windows...

You're barking up the wrong tree. A primer on marketing: you succeed when you offer customers something they want at a price they?re willing to pay. Apple has been very good at this. In the smartphone business, Microsoft has not. Banks (and app developers in general) go where the customers...

The sun will come out tomorrow! These are not the happiest of times on the Windows forums. It would be nice if we were seeing a preponderance of threads from people who are thrilled because WM10 is the best phone OS they?ve ever seen and they?re totally in love with their 950. Instead we?re...

You understand that Islandwood works only if it works for iOS developers -- they're the people who make the apps that we're hoping will get ported to Windows Mobile. Maybe this guy is an exception and most iOS developers are more positive about Islandwood, but I wouldn't put money on it. And...