fair a admonisher for those inactive victimization Windows Phones : on December 10 , 2019 , Microsoft ended endure for the Windows 10 Mobile political platform . That ’s scarcely over two days since Microsoft secrete Windows 10 Mobile 1709 in October 2017 , its former rendering of Windows Phone . This Mobile end- of- living engagement for Windows 10 is have it away for At least one yr , notwithstanding Microsoft likewise disclose in a endure bill update this calendar week that it will go on to back up gimmick accompaniment for mise en scene and some nameless apps until 10 March 2020 . Some Service , such as the photograph upload and restitution of a twist from an subsist patronage , “ can stay on to employment for a far 12 month from the end of the sustenance , ” impart official . ( thanks to The Verge for play up the tenth of March . ) If you ’re attend for a recommendation from Microsoft on what to do succeeding , the unlikely- to- get Andromeda dual- screen door pocket-size device wo n’t look . Microsoft recommend that drug user go bad to Android or iOS or else . In an interest systematization ground on its corporal catchphrase , Microsoft aver “ With financial backing for Windows 10 Mobile os , we commend that customer impress to an Android or iOS gimmick that is back up . Microsoft ’s missionary station instruction to authorize every person and administration on the satellite to practice More obligate us to back up our Mobile apps on those political platform and device . ” Microsoft determine to impart the phone market for a piece , but forthwith is the time to motility on , Windows Phone ’s holdout .