PC World - USA (2020-01)

JANUARY 2020 PCWorld 131

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t last long last, Microsoft’s
mobile OS experiment has
come to an end. Support for the
last version of Windows 10
Mobile died on December 10.
Windows phones will still work, but the
last wave of Windows Mobile devices
running the last official supported version of
Windows 10 Mobile (version 1709, the

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update) won’t

receive any more updates or patches for

Windows 10 Mobile—features, security, or

otherwise. Officially, it will cease to exist.

If you’re a Lumia 640 or 640XL owner,

you’ve already felt the touch of death:

Support for those devices ended in June. But

for the last hurrah of Windows devices,

which included the HP Elite x3 (go.pcworld.

IMAGE: MARK HACHMAN

Windows 10 Mobile is dead: How

to take your data and move on

If you’re thinking about buying a Microsoft Surface Duo, you’ll need to migrate
your data from Windows 10 Mobile to Android. BY MARK HACHMAN