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History
Development
Work on a major Windows Mobile update may have begun as early asunder the codename "Photon, but work moved slowly and the project was ultimately cancelled In 2008, Microsoft reorganized the Windows Mobile group and started work on anew mobile operating system The product was to be released in 2009 as Windows Phone, but several delays prompted Microsoft to develop Windows Mobile 6.5 as an interim release.
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Windows Phone was developed quickly. One result was that the new OS would not be compatible with Windows Mobile applications. Larry Lieberman, senior product manager for
Microsoft's Mobile Developer Experience, told eWeek: "If we'd had more time and resources, we may have been able to do something in terms of backward compatibility."
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Lieberman said that Microsoft was attempting to look at the mobile phone market in anew way, with the end user in mind as well as the enterprise network Terry Myerson, corporate VP of Windows Phone engineering, said, "With the move to capacitive touchscreens, away from the stylus, and the moves to some of the hardware choices we made for the Windows Phone 7 experience, we had to break application compatibility with Windows Mobile Latest Version of Windows Phone, Windows Phone 8.1 entered End of Support Status on July
11, 2017; Meaning it will not get any system updates, neither features nor security updates, unless user upgrades to Windows 10 Mobile, which -the upgrade- was entitled to selected models of devices running Windows Phone. Windows 10 Mobile was announced,
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on October
8 2017, that it no longer receive system features updates, but it would continue to receive security updates.

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