The end of Windows
Phone is getting closer, even though some users still enjoy the family
devices and the mobile operating system of Microsoft. After
losing support for several widely used applications, such as Instagram, the most famous messenger app in the
world has indicated a date to close activities there.
According to WhatsApp's own
online FAQ, the app will be removed from the Microsoft Windows Mobile
Store on July 1, 2019. Because development is no longer encouraged by the
company itself, many features may stop working from that date
The closure of the support will take place on
December 31 of this year. In the case of Android and iOS, support will remain quite active: in 2020, versions 2.3.7 of Android and iOS 7
or lower will no longer have standard development.
In the case that WhatsApp
stops operating on your device, one of the possible solutions is to try to
update the operating system. But if it is impossible, the only
alternatives are to use similar applications such as Telegram or Messenger or
buy a new device.
The company in 2016 devised a
plan in which it reported that WhatsApp would no longer be compatible in the
coming years with certain mobile devices that lacked the necessary capabilities
to support some updates. "When we started WhatsApp in 2009, mobile
phones were totally different from those of today," the company explained on its official blog.
Facebook's decision to end support for these apps is hardly
surprising given the Windows Phone platform is officially dead. Even
Microsoft will stop supporting the latest version of Windows 10 Mobile – 1709 –
in December this year. The phones with Windows 10 Mobile 1703 will lose support
in June itself. Many of the major apps have already stopped supporting Windows
Phone devices.
It is
unclear how many consumers are still using Windows Phone devices, but the
number is unlikely to be significant.
