++ the future of Microsoft Lumia mobile phones ++

Since the 1980's, I have work with Microsoft products, beginning with DOS.  Does anyone remember this one?  It was the foundation preceding Windows. I have installed servers, built and updated workstations, purchased additional licenses for Microsoft software, trained employees on how to use it, consulted and worked with programmers, engineers and communication professionals. 

For a long time, I fought having a smart phone;  just didn't think it was necessary and not a fan of the other two platforms - ever.  Finally accepting the inevitable 15 years ago, we discovered Windows phones. Okay, there were frustrating moments setting up, learning it, lack of applications - our kids ditched them for Androids - but we like them. They included everything we need - good GPS, phone, text and a few useful apps.  To date, I have migrated to the Windows 10 platform with my 950 and was certain the phones would do better in the marketplace.  Microsoft unified the Windows 10 platform and admitted they needed to move ahead with fresh and concurrent technology.  Hearing the abandonment of the phone is a disappointment, to say the least.

If it is truly abandoned by Microsoft and they choose not to sell, or reinvent it into another device, consumers will also be forced to abdicate. So long, ciao, adios ... we are just whining here and need to be thinking about our next platform and get on with it.  If they are listening, hopefully someone in the ivory towers will have some sense to re-craft this baby.

I recently filled out a questionnaire from Microsoft and complained to a VP about abandoning the phones.  The poll was from the Azure division, so not sure how it will be handled, or if forwarded to anyone. At this time, we need to make a little noise where it matters and remind them we are their customers and rely on their products.  We didn't give up, they did ...

As I have pointed out several times throughout this thread, Windows Mobile is over, dead, buried, not coming back. It already happened at least a couple of years ago, the page has been turned, chapter closed, book archived and taken to the vault in the basement. Nobody is listening, because nobody is interested and also there is virtually no one left to listen. Consumers have been abdicating for at least 3 years now, when it became glaringly obvious how this is going to end. Developers gave up earlier than that. Officially the end of all development of W10M was announced in November 2017, however your post sounds like you have just found out about it ? MS ended production of all phones in mid 2016 and the production facilities were sold off soon after.

I am not debating whether it was a good or bad OS, what went wrong, what could have been done differently, etc., this has already been done over and over again in other places on the web more suited to such discussions.

• recently we have received a sincere thank you from Microsoft for being active Windows 10 device users & contributing to the approximately 800 million Windows 10 devices existing in this complicated world ++ Windows (10) mobile is functional, useful & supported so why not benefit from it (for Chris : one of the great benefits is that you can install apps & games directly to the SD card) ++ for 93tid : vaults are for safe-keeping & Windows 10 mobile maybe has contributed to the development of a next generation of Windows Mobile devices ++ for Donna : DOS, Windows 3.1 have been first IT environments, but only with Windows 95 has arrived the feeling that is still active also with Windows 10 mobile devices & search the store there are 100s of useful apps & games //

• another great advantage of Microsoft Lumia devices has been their safety record (operational & software) ++ their like ratio has been competitive achieving more than 38% of likes per devices used (the idle Microsoft Lumia fb page has recorded over 42 million likes per over 111 million units manufactured & this is encouraging) //