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IANS | 19 Jan, 2019
Tech giant Microsoft has asked
its users to switch to an Android or iOS device as it announced the end
of support for Windows 10 Mobile.
In an "End of Support" page,
the company told users that Windows 10 Mobile will stop receiving new
security updates after December 10.
"With the Windows 10 Mobile
OS end of support, we recommend that customers move to a supported
Android or iOS device. Microsoft's mission statement to empower every
person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more, compels us
to support our Mobile apps on those platforms and devices," the company
wrote in the support page late on Friday.
According to Microsoft,
its virtual assistant Cortana is no longer in direct competition with
Amazon's Alexa and Google's Assistant.
"Cortana needs to be that
skill for anybody who's a Microsoft 365 subscriber. You should be able
to use it on Google Assistant, you should be able to use it on Alexa,
just like how you use our apps on Android and iOS, so that's at least
how we want to think about where it'll go," Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella
was quoted as saying in the support page.
Back in 2017, the New
York City Police Department (NYPD) reportedly scrapped as many as 36,000
Windows phones and replaced them with iPhones after previous
acknowledgment that Microsoft mobile support would be ending.
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