Jun 9, 2011 08:44 GMT  ·  By

It's no joke, Microsoft has given up to its old Windows Mobile platform, as the company issued a reminder to all users to warn them that the Windows Mobile website and marketplace will be shut-down on July 15.

Those who didn't move to a newer mobile platform until now will probably be very disappointed by this decision, especially that Microsoft also plans to discontinue the My Phone service.

However, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile service will continue to be available on the phone, so users will still be able to browse, buy and download applications for Windows Mobile 6.x on their phones.

On the other hand, the company stated that, on August 7, the My Phone service will stop synchronizing data between My Phone-configured Windows Mobile 6.x phones and the My Phone service.

Basically, user data will stop being backed up to the My Phone service and Microsoft will begin automatic migration of certain data types from the My Phone service to Windows Live SkyDrive.

SkyDrive is Microsoft's free online storage service that helps users access and share their files such as photos and Microsoft Office documents.

Windows Mobile 6.x smartphone users will be able to access their contacts, calendar entries, text messages and photos by logging into SkyDrive using the Windows Live ID that they registered for the My Phone service, as soon as the information is moved to SkyDrive.

Still, users should know that other content types, such as videos, music, documents and favorites will not be automatically moved from My Phone to SkyDrive, so they may want to save this type of content from the My Phone service to their PCs.

According to Microsoft, on October 6 the My Phone website will no longer be accessible, which means that users will no longer be able to log in to the My Phone service and access their content stored to the My Phone service.

However, the company said that it will continue to store users My Phone content for one more year.

Given the fact that the content won't be accessible online anymore, physical copies of this content will be shipped to users upon request until October 5, 2012.