Microsoft drops Windows Phone by the side of the road, drives off

Windows Phone, Microsoft's mobile platform and the only platform that ever came close to being a serious competitor to iOS and Android in the post-BlackBerry era, is no more. 

On Tuesday, July 11, Windows Phone 8.1 fell into Microsoft's "end of support" category for software, which means there will be no updates to it of any kind, including security updates. 

That last bit is important: Even if you're still clinging to your Windows Phone device, the lack of security updates should be reason enough for you to immediately start shopping for a new phone. If you keep using an unsupported device, you'll be wide open to hackers, and that usually ends in all your content being locked until you pay a certain amount of Bitcoin to a certain address.  Read more...