On this week’s Windows Weekly while on the topic on Microsoft’s foldable device patent Mary Jo Foley asked whether the device would come with WM10 or Windows on Arm. I may be missing something but I assumed Windows on Arm if it comes to fruition would replace Windows Mobile.
My rational is that both WM and WoA would run all the same UWP apps (hence the U) but WoA would have the advantage of being able to run legacy applications as well, even if it is just in a docked situation.
With little demand for WM devices and even less for non continuum capable ones why would Microsoft continue developing WM along side WoA?
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<p>MS has already begun the process of slowing/stopping app development targeted for WM.</p>
<p>The writing was on the wall a long time ago when features and apps were added to the iOS and Play stores <em>before</em> the Windows Store.</p>
<p>It was on the wall when they signaled that they would skinny hardware development down.</p>
<p>It was clear when they stopped making and selling Microsoft-developed hardware.</p>
<p>Now it’s clear they have been hard at work on making WoA a reality for some time now, only revealing it last month.</p>
<p>Not sure what it is going to take with this crowd, but it is a very stubborn 1%.</p>
<p>The WM platform is dead, has been dead, and has literally been a zombie for nearly two years now.</p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#37748">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/hrlngrv">hrlngrv</a><a href="#37748">:</a></em></blockquote>
<p>The limitations of RT required recompiling of Win32 apps. It was dead when it shipped.</p>
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<p>Is it not true that the only currently available WM10 device is a WP? So if we reach the point where there are no Windows Phones they’ll be nothing for WM10 to run on. MS could decide to make a phone with Windows on Arm I suppose but I doubt that Win32 apps on a phone would be very useful due to the ergonomics.</p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#37741">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/Finley">Finley</a><a href="#37741">:</a></em></blockquote>
<p>In that case they should call it Windows 10 Tethered. These tethered scenarios make as much sense to me as a cell phone you have to plug into a phone jack in the wall.</p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#37763">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/hrlngrv">hrlngrv</a><a href="#37763">:</a></em></blockquote>
<p>The point was that ARM opens the up more battery life possibilities, not so much UWP.</p>
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<blockquote><em><a href="#37756">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/Finley">Finley</a><a href="#37756">:</a></em></blockquote>
<p>How about having a tier 1 console and a unique AR product, along with several hundred million instances of Windows 10? Despite all this, UWP is still stuck in neutral. MS has taken the long – LONG way around and they still haven’t arrived at relevance in mobility.</p>