Windows Phone

Also known as maribe, WP

operating system for mobile devices created by Microsoft

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Windows Phone was a mobile operating system created by Microsoft to power smartphones and compete with other platforms like Apple's iOS and Google's Android. It mattered because it represented Microsoft's effort to establish a significant presence in the growing smartphone market during the 2010s.

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Official website: www.microsoft.com/windowsphone
Image: Nokia Lumia 520 Windows Phone 8.1 ru.JPG

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Commons category: Windows Phone
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/windows-phone-7.1
publication date: 2010-11-08
software version identifier: 8.10.15148.160
Stack Exchange site URL: windowsphone.stackexchange.com
social media followers: 54163
described at URL: www.videogameschronicle.com/?post_type=platforms&p=421

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Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design language. Unlike Windows Mobile, it was primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market.

It was first launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 8 succeeded it in 2012, replacing the Windows CE-based kernel of Windows Phone 7 with the Windows NT kernel used by the PC versions of Windows (and, in particular, a large amount of internal components from Windows 8). Due to these changes, the OS was incompatible with all existing Windows Phone 7 devices, although it still supported apps originally developed for Windows Phone 7. In 2014, Microsoft released the Windows Phone 8.1 update, which introduced the Cortana virtual assistant, and Windows Runtime platform support to create cross-platform apps between Windows PCs and Windows Phone.