Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too

ReCode ^ | MAY 25, 2016, 5:00A | BY INA FRIED

[Grams A]

I’ll look for it. Someone else on FR recommended a program, also free, called GWX. I did install that and removed two W10 files that had piggybacked in one W7 update.

You all are so incredibly helpful to us whose depth of computer knowledge is often challenged. Thanks much. Have a wonderful Memorial Day.

[RebelTex]

I love SpinRite and everything Steve Gibson makes available.

IIRC, my first version of SpinRite was the original (on a 5.25” floppy lol), back in the ‘80s. I have bought/upgraded to nearly every version, and now own the latest: SpinRite 6. Using it, I have totally and perfectly rescued a number of HDDs that had failed, including all corrupted/lost files. Never found a HDD that couldn’t be saved with SpinRite, the ONLY disk recovery program that I trust.

I have used a lot of his free utilities over the years and loved each of them.

Gibson is fluent in many popular micro, mini, and mainframe computer machine/assembly languages, which makes program code very small, tight, clean, and extremely fast.

I wish he would create an entire OS in Assembly Language, what a dream OS that would be on any machine (and a really monsterous project, LOL).

[dennisw]

My apologies for correcting you when it was YOU who was correct.

No problemo. You are so immersed in all things Apple that you know nothing about Microsoft and Steve Balmer...just kidding!!!But amazing how Microsoft made 10 billion go pffft! This takes some real skills.

[Jonty30]

They are not getting out, at least according to this memo. They are moving ahead with Continuum.

http://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-memo-reveals-shifting-mobile-strategy?utm_medium=slider&utm_campaign=navigation&utm_source=wp

[TChad]

My cheap Windows phone has been one of the great bargains of my life. I love the thing.

Thank you, Microsoft, for dragging me into the world of smartphones.

[Excellence]

I’m not fond of GSM, but my daughter seems to be happy with it, so maybe it has improved.

[Delta 21]

With the hub-bub oF Cankles not beings able to effectively make a desktop computer work and “having” to be slaved to Blackberries and smartphones, MicroJUNK has abandon the cell phone market. Despite the fact that they are all computers.

Windows OS has been self obfuscating since TabWorks in Win 3.1. Up untill this very day, Windows OS will deceive you, try to trick you, and even lie to you with pop ups in order to get you to digitally upgrade to their latest OS, which will have redesigned all the useful system tweaks to be all but inaccessible to the user forcing additional software to be used to maintain the same or degraded functionality that your tool had just moments before. Dont even get me going on Blue Tooth compatibility/convenience or the daily task of reminding my desktop computer that it is not a mobile device nor does it have a touch screen and it hasnt changed location in more than a year.

This box is the last Dell or Microjunk product I will own. My boycott started when MS forced me away from XP. Three OSs later I am still searching for Windows based solutions to lead me back to that lost lush green pasture that I know has long since been paved over. I have 3 boxes running Ubuntu/ Fedora, the wife’s work phone is Apple, the 5 other computer devices are all Andriod of various flavors.

Microsoft just needs to give up. They are dead to me. And its of their own doing.

[doomtrooper99]

I actually went back to Android so I could connect my Toyota to the Internet and enjoy Pandora and Traffic updates. This feature REQUIRES iOS or Android. No Windows Mobile support.
:-(