Windows 10 Mobile is not dead, the company says

Apr 19, 2017 05:36 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft’s Upgrade Advisor app went down during the weekend, making many people believe this was just another step to abandon Windows phone, especially following the criticism the company received in the last few months.

As we told you yesterday, however, the Upgrade Advisor app returned to the Windows Store a few hours after it first went dark, with Microsoft now restoring full access and thus making it possible once again to upgrade from Windows Phone to Windows 10 Mobile.

The Upgrade Advisor is a must-have app to perform the transition from Windows Phone to Windows 10 Mobile, and was mostly considered a mobile version of the Get Windows 10 app that was released for PCs.

In addition to restoring the main upgrade path for Windows phones, Microsoft has also denied recent speculation that it’s trying to give up on its mobile platform, with company executives explaining in tweets that the firm is still committed to smartphones.

Committed to Windows 10 Mobile

Brandon LeBlanc, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Windows Insider Program Team in WDG, said in a tweet on April 17 that “work continues on Windows 10 Mobile,” despite the recent speculation that the software giant is preparing the demise of the platform.

According to these rumors, Microsoft might be looking into ways to pull the plug on Windows 10 Mobile and instead of releasing the Redstone 3 update, the firm wanted to ship just a smaller update with fixes and improvements.

The focus would then switch to Windows 10 on ARM, a new project that brings the full version of Windows 10 on ARM processors and which could also power a potential Surface Phone coming next year.

And yet, it looks like Microsoft is still committed to Windows phones, even though there are absolutely no specifics available at this point. Rumor has it that the company might be planning even a new Windows 10 Mobile device later this year, but again, there’s nothing confirmed so far.