Windows Phone 7.5 and 8 will no longer receive push notifications.

•Smartphones running Windows Phone 7.5 or Windows 8 are no longer getting push notifications, after Microsoft announced it’s pulled support.

•Windows Phone 8.1 will work as usual “at this time,” and the current Windows 10 Mobile is still fully supported.

•However, Microsoft has said that Windows 10 Mobile is no longer a focus, and users shouldn’t expect new features or hardware.


It’s no secret by now that Microsoft’s smartphone ambitions are basically over, with its current Windows 10 Mobile operating system barely on life support.

So here’s another nail in the coffin. On Monday, Microsoft announced in a blog post that any phone running the older Windows Phone 7.5 or 8 operating systems will no longer receive push notifications. Plus, the “Find my phone” function on those operating systems will no longer work, either.

This isn’t necessarily going to affect a whole lot of users: Windows Phone 7.5 was first released in 2011, and Windows Phone 8 dropped in 2012. Despite the nomenclature, they were totally different operating systems: Windows Phone 7.5 hardware couldn’t upgrade to Windows Phone 8. Neither operating system found a huge audience at the time, and there likely aren’t many phones out there using it today — which is part of why Microsoft currently finds itself in this suboptimal smartphone situation in the first place.

If you’re one of the few using the more recent Windows Phone 8.1, which dropped in 2014, Microsoft writes that everything will still work as usual “at this time.” The phrasing here keeps the door open that things could change in the not-so-distant future.

Meanwhile, Windows 10 Mobile, which launched in 2015, is still fully supported by Microsoft. At least, technically: While all of its current features still work the same as they ever did, Microsoft announced in October that users can only expect security patches and minor improvements, not major new features or new hardware.

So, yes, here’s another milestone in the march to the grave for Windows on smartphones.

Hope may still spring, though: Rumor is that Microsoft is working on a new, foldable tablet device that could also function as a smartphone. If and when that device comes to market, though, it will almost certainly not be running anything we would today recognize as a Windows phone operating system.

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Make them no do any how o i still they rock my windows phone sha

Window phones are dead and buried

Windows phones were supposed to flexible and user-friendly but the reverse is the case here

Ok... Next

Windows phones?.
I haven't seen one since 2014

Systematically, phone makers are forcing people to buy more newer phones. It's immoral. Apple was slowing down batteries just to force customers to upgrade.

What happened to phones you can use for 10 years?

windows ni
door ni
windows phone is not compatible with Africa/ Nigeria to be presice

RIP Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10.

fifty5:
Make them no do any how o i still they rock my windows phone sha

Trash it

Yankee101:
Systematically, phone makers are forcing people to buy more newer phones. It's immoral. Apple was slowing down batteries just to force customers to upgrade.

What happened to phones you can use for 10 years?

Business strategy

I just don't like the phone

Nokia knows this phone brand has no future in coming years dropped them quickly for Android. Wisdom

I lost interest in that phone ever since Bill Gate said he had stopped using window phones

If Microsoft owner does not trust the phone who am I

I just laugh @ guys when they tells me one problem or the other their window phone is giving them

When Bill Gate the Microsoft owner have abandoned his own since

People still use windows phone?!

hmmm

I recall, back in 2013, when I mentioned that Windows Phone and it's possibilities was doomed to fail, I was attached by a number of people and called a fanboy.
Now, even the company has given up hope on the phones .

jmaine:


So the best you could do is scamper to unearth an irrelevant article to buttress your empty retorts . . .Lolz . .

And the dude feels the web is seriously lacking articles praising and eulogizing the Windows Phone to the high heavens . This dude is funny . . .

Recent reports shows that the WP 8 platform surpassed the BB as the the 3rd largest platform in the US in the 4th quarter of last year . .

The adoption of the WP 8 device is even more impressive and pronounced in Europe with demand hugely surpassing supplies . . .


http://www.wpcentral.com/windows-phone-took-3rd-place-q4-2012-expense-blackberry

People might argue for BB10 launching this year . .but how far can the BB10 sales go with upcoming announcement of the SG4 and the Lumia 41 MP pureview device codenamed EOS

jmaine:


The N3 fans are just raving glad they can equally rub shoulders with other "Expensive" andriod users with a very cheap purchase

The Lumia train is silent for the now, but with Nokia/microsoft investing and hinging their strategy on low budgets devices . .The rave will soon land our shores in the same manner the Lumia 520/521 churning out sales like no tomorrow in Asia and America . .

Specifically, the Lumia 520 is gradually ruling the Indian Market, only a matter of time before Nigeria catches the heat

Bawss1:


Another Tecno head

Do you realize that the article you posted is a report from 2012? I suggest you look up reports for Nokia's performance for Q1 2013. Start with this one http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/18/nokia-hits-7-7-billion-in-revenue-for-q1-2013-with-5-8-million/
Btw, what analysis have you seen that says Nokia is losing the low end market to Tecno?

frankly, the only time I see a Windows phone is when Channels TV does an ad for their ireporter app.
guess it will soon go the way of the Zune player.

what's a Zune player you ask?
Exactly!!

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Trash it [/quote my bro windows phone is bae

Simeony007:
I just don't like the phone

Nokia knows this phone brand has no future in coming years dropped them quickly for Android. Wisdom

Nope. They had a contract with Microsoft. They would've dumped it a time ago, if they could. The current Nokia android phones circulating the market are not manufactured by Nokia, literally. They (the phones) are manufactured by HMD global, a company affiliated with Nokia. Nokia only supplies the technicality needed for the phones in return for royalty payments.

Oh

Leopantro:
hmmm

I recall, back in 2013, when I mentioned that Windows Phone and it's possibilities was doomed to fail, I was attached by a number of people and called a fanboy.
Now, even the company has given up hope on the phones .





frankly, the only time I see a Windows phone is when Channels TV does an ad for their ireporter app.
guess it will soon go the way of the Zune player.

what's a Zune player you ask?
Exactly!!

I still love my windows phone. Cheers

Too bad for them windows phone users. Android does it for me.