Microsoft outlines Windows 10 Mobile’s support lifecycle

With those devices, Microsoft appears to be trying to inspire OEMs to build more attractive products that take advantage of Windows 10.

The U.S. firm is also working with 25 device manufacturers, including original equipment manufacturers, to incorporate the new OS in their digital devices. Microsoft has only just stopped supporting Windows XP after 12 years.

However, as Windows Central claims, the Surface phone may not be an all-metal phone, so it is possible that we may be looking at a plastic or a composite material body here. Flashing devices has been around the corner from a really long time and all the while it has been considered sort of outlaw to flash your phone.

With Microsoft confirming that Continuum will be arriving on more handsets in the future, this may be a convenient solution for a quick bit of work without the hassle of finding the dock and connecting the cables.

Ladies and gentlemen – Windows 10 is available to download for Xiaomi Mi 4! Gartner’s forecast did not see Windows 10 as contributing to any great comeback, either. The Mi4 was part of Microsoft’s Insider program, meaning that curious developers could install Windows on their phones if they felt like living a bit dangerously – but that was far from an official release. Despite the rise in shipments, IDC predicts Windows Phone devices will account for just 2.3 percent of the smartphone market in 2019, essentially remaining flat over the course of at least the next four years. It has the potential of making or breaking the mobile division of the company, although it shouldn’t mean Lumias have a chance at going down the obsolete road.

Microsoft has been struggling to rebuild its mobile business ever since Windows Mobile, it’s previous mobile OS, started to decline. Is the tech there to really innovate in the smartphone industry? After setting up an application and drivers you need to simply connect your Mi 4 and click the flash button. Steam’s November 2015 hardware survey results list Windows 10 already as the second most used operating system on the platform trailing only Windows 7 on it. “They should report the revenue, not the run rate”, he said.