{"id":332138,"date":"2019-12-10T08:53:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=332138"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T06:55:47","slug":"rip-windows-10-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/332138-rip-windows-10-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP Windows 10 Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 Mobile will receive its final set of updates today, after which the mobile operating system will officially be deemed <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4484693\/windows-10-mobile-end-of-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>unsupported<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to all Windows 10 Mobile products, including Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 10 Mobile Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Windows 10 Mobile users will no longer be eligible to receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free assisted support options or online technical content updates from Microsoft for free,&#8221; Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Since Windows 10 Mobile is the final version of the Windows mobile operating system, this means that Microsoft will officially remove itself from the mobile operating system market.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 10 Mobile has been all but dead for a long time already, but it has been continued to be supported with updates.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft recommends that users instead use Android or iOS for their smartphones, as the company believes that these operating systems are where users will get the most frequent and in-depth updates &#8211; even for Microsoft&#8217;s own apps.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced on Friday that it would also be cancelling all support for Microsoft Office apps on Windows 10 Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft remains committed to providing a great Office experience on phones for consumer, commercial, education, and government users through the iOS and Android apps which continue to be supported,&#8221; said the company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/332110-worst-blackouts-in-south-africas-history.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Worst blackouts in South Africa\u2019s history<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 Mobile will receive its final set of updates today, after which the mobile operating system will officially be deemed unsupported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":232415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,3032,30376,30384],"class_list":["post-332138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile-os","tag-windows-10-mobile","tag-windows-10-mobile-enterprise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332152,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332138\/revisions\/332152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}