Windows Phone 8.1 is getting dropped by Microsoft tomorrow

2. zr2s10 (Posts: 45; Member since: 07 Jul 2017)

Running W10M on my 950. I don't see any disadvantage to it over 8.1 (tried it for a bit on a 640), other than a scant few apps having issues. But there are scant few apps on WM period....
Almost any phone running 8.1 can be upgraded to 10 using the Insider Program. It's very easy to do. Of course, I plan on getting rid of my 950 soon, or at least buying a G6 with the 950 as a backup. Lack of apps I can tolerate, but when you have to do everything with Edge, it needs to work right, and it just doesn't get the job done, too often for my liking.

3. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4764; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)

A slowly dying breed...

4. libra89 (Posts: 1846; Member since: 15 Apr 2016)

There isn't anything worth upgrading to for my dad. He likes Windows Phone, and his phone doesn't qualify for the upgrade anyway.

8. airisoverrated (Posts: 54; Member since: 08 Jun 2012)

Oh Windows Phone what could've been. There was so much I liked about that platform, but no matter how many times I told myself developers would come - they never really did. I even got a glimpse of hope when they rolled Astoria into the preview builds and could sideload some android apps. But then they even took that away. They probably could've kept me on the platform if they'd left the emulator on there, as inconvenient as it was.

Even now I take out my old Lumia 880 to play around with. Maybe Microsoft has a hero device up it's sleeves to make something usable for us fanboys that will actually run apps I want to use besides office, but till then I'm using my android phone with some Microsoft software and all the apps I missed when I was on WP.