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Windows 10 Mobile
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mobile operating system developed by Microsoft
Key facts
- Developer
- Microsoft Mobile
- Os family
- Windows Phone
- Working state
- Discontinued
- Released to manufacturing
- November 20, 2015 ; 10 years ago ( 2015-11-20 )
- General availability
- March 17, 2016 ; 10 years ago ( 2016-03-17 )
- Final release
- 10.0.15254.603 (KB4535289) / January 14, 2020 ; 6 years ago ( 2020-01-14 )
- Update method
- Windows Update
- Package manager
- XAP, APPX, APPXBundle
- Supported platforms
- ARM 32-bit , ARM 64-bit
- Kernel type
- Hybrid ( Windows NT )
- Preceded by
- Windows Phone 8.1 (2014), Windows RT (2012)
- Succeeded by
- Microsoft Launcher via Android 10 in Surface Duo (2020), Windows 11 on Tablets, Handhelds & Small Screen Devices
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- operating system
- Subclass of
- Windows Phone
- Publisher
- Microsoft
- Series
- Windows Phone
- Followed by
- Windows 11
- Follows
- Windows RT
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Platform
- ARM architecture
- Manufacturer
- Microsoft
- Official website
- microsoft.com/mobile/windows10
- Image
- Lumia830windows10m.JPG
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- inception
- 2015-02-12
- publication date
- 2015-11-20
- software version identifier
- 10.0.15254.603
- edition or translation of
- Windows 10
- end time
- 2020-01-14
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/windows-10-mobile
- discontinuation date
- 2020-01-14
- different from
- Windows 10
- Commons category
- Windows 10 Mobile
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Encyclopedic overview
Windows 10 Mobile is a discontinued mobile operating system and is the fourth and final generation of Microsoft's Windows Phone, succeeding Windows Phone 8.1. First released in 2015, it was marketed by Microsoft as being an edition of its PC counterpart, Windows 10.
Windows 10 Mobile aimed to provide greater consistency with its counterpart for PCs, including more extensive synchronization of content, Universal Windows Platform apps, as well as the capability, on supported hardware, to connect devices to an external display and use a desktop interface with mouse and keyboard input support (reminiscent of Windows on PCs). Microsoft built tools for developers to port iOS Objective-C apps with minimal modifications. Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones are eligible for upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile, pursuant to manufacturer and carrier support. Some features vary depending on hardware compatibility.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Windows 10 Mobile” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.