An era has passed, the Windows Phone 8.1 store is officially closed

On December 16th, the Windows Phone 8.1 application store officially closed today. As early as the end of last year, Microsoft announced that it would officially stop supporting the Windows 10 Mobile system on December 10 this year. Although Microsoft recently said that this plan would be postponed, the Windows Phone 8.1 application store, which is an earlier product But it was officially closed today.

In fact, in the initial era of smartphones, Apple’s iOS system was in the lead, and Android joined the competition as a latecomer. The frenzy of smart devices has swept the world. Among them, the giant Nokia has transformed, abandoned the Symbian system, and turned to cooperate with Microsoft, which is involved in the operating system of mobile devices, creating the Lumia series, but unexpectedly, it became the last afterglow of Windows Phonee and Nokia.

It is understood that 2013 was the highlight of the Nokia Lumia series and Windows Phone. Lumia was favored by the market with its excellent industrial design and simple Windows Phone system. Market research firm IDC even predicted that by 2015, Microsoft’s mobile device operating system will surpass Apple’s iOS, but now it’s closed.

The reason for the status quo is likely to be that Microsoft does not pay attention to the software ecological environment, or that there is a deviation in the direction of building the ecology. Microsoft has always wanted to create an integrated operating system from desktop devices to mobile device scenarios, and Windows 10 Mobile can see some clues.

From the I am 1% activity initiated by netizens in 2015, it can be seen that there are still many users who have a good impression of the Windows Phone operating system, so that the unsupported and slow update of many third-party software has also caused dissatisfaction among many users. The closure of the Windows Phone 8.1 application store now seems to mean the complete collapse of the Windows Phone ecosystem.

The release of the Surface Duo with Android in October this year further confirms that Microsoft may temporarily abandon its mobile operating system efforts and instead provide more software services to the iOS and Android platforms.

Editor of this article: Yao Xia

Author: Yao Xia