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The forgotten Windows Phone feature modern phones still can't match

It's been a decade since Microsoft effectively conceded defeat in the smartphone war, yet the ghost of Windows Phone continues to haunt the industry. Parts of the OS are still alive in the form of ...
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I tried living with a Windows Phone in 2025 and it worked better than I expected

Windows Phone was one of the best mobile operating systems to ever grace our phones. Six years after Microsoft ditched its almost perfect phone OS, I tried using Windows Phone in 2025, and the ...
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Here’s what the Windows Phone would look like in 2024 if Microsoft had never killed it

You probably haven’t thought about Windows phones in a while. After all, why would you? The last Windows Phone handset to be released was the Microsoft Lumia 650 in 2016, so it’s been a good eight ...
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Windows Phone 7.5: Microsoft’s Overachieving Underdog

Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often ...