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07-12-2017, 06:53 PM
Microsoft drops ******* Phone by the side of the road, drives off
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******* Phone (http://mashable.com/category/*******-phone/), Microsoft's mobile platform and the only platform that ever came close to being a serious competitor to iOS and Android in the post-BlackBerry era, is ** more.*
On Tuesday, July 11, ******* Phone 8.1 fell into Microsoft's "end of support (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4001737/products-reaching-end-of-support-for-2017)" category for software, which means there will be ** updates to it of any kind, including security updates.*
SEE ALSO: ******* 10 is about to get a whole slew of new bells and whistles (http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/*******-10-preview-build/)
That last bit is important: Even if you're still clinging to your ******* Phone device, the lack of security updates should be reason e**ugh for you to immediately start shopping for a new phone. If you keep using an unsupported device, you'll be wide open to ******s, and that usually ends (http://mashable.com/2017/06/29/ransomware-**tpetya-wannacry-******s-cryptocurrency/) in all your content being locked until you pay a certain amount of Bitcoin to a certain address.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/12/*******-phone-officially-dead/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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******* Phone (http://mashable.com/category/*******-phone/), Microsoft's mobile platform and the only platform that ever came close to being a serious competitor to iOS and Android in the post-BlackBerry era, is ** more.*
On Tuesday, July 11, ******* Phone 8.1 fell into Microsoft's "end of support (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4001737/products-reaching-end-of-support-for-2017)" category for software, which means there will be ** updates to it of any kind, including security updates.*
SEE ALSO: ******* 10 is about to get a whole slew of new bells and whistles (http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/*******-10-preview-build/)
That last bit is important: Even if you're still clinging to your ******* Phone device, the lack of security updates should be reason e**ugh for you to immediately start shopping for a new phone. If you keep using an unsupported device, you'll be wide open to ******s, and that usually ends (http://mashable.com/2017/06/29/ransomware-**tpetya-wannacry-******s-cryptocurrency/) in all your content being locked until you pay a certain amount of Bitcoin to a certain address.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/12/*******-phone-officially-dead/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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