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Microsoft finally admits Windows Phone is dead – ends with a whimper, not a bang

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/windows-phone-hub.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>The writing has been on the wall for Windows Phone for a very long time. It had long struggled to achieve more than one or two percentage points of market share; <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/07/08/microsoft-job-cuts-write-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft wrote-off[/url] its Nokia hardware business in 2015; the company <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/25/microsoft-windows-phone-dead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exited the consumer market[/url] in May; and even Bill Gates recently admitted he’d <a href="https://9to5google.com/2017/09/25/bill-gates-says-he-switched-to-android-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">switched to an Android phone[/url] …</p>
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