Microsoft never gave the Windows Phone the show it deserved

Oct09

by Sindy Cator on October 9, 2017 at 10:44 pm

A Microsoft official confirmed this weekend that the Windows Phone was dead, and the company had no plans on making any new hardware in the line. While it might be instructive to look for a cause of death in the phone’s hardware, or its software, you could also look to another problem: the marketing. In an display of honesty, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore confessed on Twitter that the company’s Windows Phone line was effectively dead, and even he had jumped ship. While some updates would continue to roll out, the phone is not going to receive any new features — and…