Windows 10 Mobile has been suffering from some chronic disease for the last few years. Many experts have declared it dead many times in the past. But the recent lacklustre treatment of this platform by none other than Microsoft has casted doubts about it's future in the mind of some of its die hard fans. So what exactly is going to happen to this OS?
To understand this, we have to go back to Windows 8.0. Yes, the same Windows 8.0 that brought nightmares to many desktop users through out the world. I was personally not a big fan of this OS but there is one thing that made this OS unique. It integrated many features of Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0. Live Tiles was one such addition. There were many other under the hood changes that reduced the gap between Windows on desktop and on mobiles like action and notification center. This was the first step towards the unification. If you look at other subsequent versions of Windows, you will realise that they added incremental modifications to Windows 8.0. The Creators update of Windows 10 has managed to reduce that gap even further through the introduction of many universal apps.
Now it's time to look at the other side of this story. It's Windows on smartphones. While it is true that Windows 8.0 integrated many features of WP 8.0, the reverse is also true. Windows on smartphones started integrating many features of Windows on desktops. W10M introduced the file explorer, settings, Edge and many other desktop class features to the smartphones.
So in a way, the story of Windows 10 is incomplete without smartphones. I think that a time has come in the development process where the gap between the mobile version and the desktop version of Windows has reduced to such a level that there is no point in having two different OS. May be this is the last leg of unification. It's not going to be easy. The last mile is always the most difficult one. But I personally believe that Windows 10 Mobile may die but Windows 10 on mobiles will survive!
To understand this, we have to go back to Windows 8.0. Yes, the same Windows 8.0 that brought nightmares to many desktop users through out the world. I was personally not a big fan of this OS but there is one thing that made this OS unique. It integrated many features of Windows Phone 7.5 and Windows Phone 8.0. Live Tiles was one such addition. There were many other under the hood changes that reduced the gap between Windows on desktop and on mobiles like action and notification center. This was the first step towards the unification. If you look at other subsequent versions of Windows, you will realise that they added incremental modifications to Windows 8.0. The Creators update of Windows 10 has managed to reduce that gap even further through the introduction of many universal apps.
Now it's time to look at the other side of this story. It's Windows on smartphones. While it is true that Windows 8.0 integrated many features of WP 8.0, the reverse is also true. Windows on smartphones started integrating many features of Windows on desktops. W10M introduced the file explorer, settings, Edge and many other desktop class features to the smartphones.
So in a way, the story of Windows 10 is incomplete without smartphones. I think that a time has come in the development process where the gap between the mobile version and the desktop version of Windows has reduced to such a level that there is no point in having two different OS. May be this is the last leg of unification. It's not going to be easy. The last mile is always the most difficult one. But I personally believe that Windows 10 Mobile may die but Windows 10 on mobiles will survive!
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