Microsoft just buried Windows Phone... on Twitter

Windows Phone is dead. 

You know thisMicrosoft has told you in not so many words that they wouldn't be updating the platform, but some factions held out hope for a reprieve. After all, Microsoft has yet to clarify their position on the rumored Surface Phone, which could be a radical update path for the Windows Phone, and it technically still supports Windows 10 Mobile, the successor to Windows Phone (though there is very little hardware). So there's still hope, right?

Nope. None other than long-time Microsoft executive and the man who once championed the Windows Phone platform, Joe Belfiore, took out a 140-character stake on Sunday and jammed it through Windows mobile's barely beating heart. Read more...