Microsoft announced earlier today that it was collaborating with Xiaomi in providing Mi 4 customers with a flashable ROM that allows them to run Windows 10 for phones on their Android devices. It looks like that program is set for a wider rollout, according to a report on TechCrunch:
Neither Microsoft nor Xiaomi provided specific details of the Windows 10 software being trialled, but TechCrunch understands from sources that it effectively overrides Android, turning the Xiaomi phone into a Windows 10 device complete with Microsoft services. (Which the company hopes will dazzle Android owners into making the switch.)
This is a ROM, based on Windows, that operates much like software from Cyanogen — a company Microsoft was incorrectly linked with an investment in — and other custom ROMs developed by the likes of Tencent and Baidu in China.
The ROM is thus designed to go beyond Microsoft's Android apps and offer a native-like Windows experience on Android phones.
Microsoft is said to have selected Xiaomi as the first partner on account of the generous amount of feedback the Chinese vendor receives from its customers on weekly software updates. The Redmond giant is reportedly looking to "make this software available on more devices in time."
Source: TechCrunch
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Microsoft is making a ROM that allows Android smartphones to run Windows 10 for phones
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hope it will reach a time when we just be buying phone H/W like pc and dumping the OS we want on it
Ive been running windows 8 on mh LG G3. You mean to tell me they just now coming out with this shit were my check or job ?
My question would be when will Microsoft ever collaborate with Android to set up a dual boot partition that will allow Android users to flash custom roms directly from their devices? I don't want to use a PC to flash roms to my device.
Please Make Windows 10 ROM for All android Phones (Not only in Mi4 Phones).... So Many users expecting Windows 10 rom from microsoft to Convert their Android Smart Phones to Windows... Windows Phone is the best. And provide some new apps like xender sapia sooperbeam etc.. That makes a Big change in No.of sales in Windows Phone!
Are there any new update about this?
Hopefully! Cant wait to install it to my super laggy asus zenfone 4... cant hold this much. I think asus zenfone 4 hardware is better than lumia 520... so it must can run w10 smoothly. (Sorry for my bad eng)
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Super great actually, but if you can't bring the Google play store converted, perhaps there are more people will stick with Android, it doesn't matter with the apps between MS and Google but most people adapted to google.
This would be great if say we could stick W10 on a Samsung Galaxy S4 - my OH's S4 is a POS with Android running on it!
just say it loud and clear, Microsoft is releasing the windows 10 rom for phones, anything running the minimum requirements could get flashed with it, yay finally some common sense, now you will see marketshare rise, lots of peple with low end droids begging for a decent, smooth experience will have the option to try this
As usaly lots of cry babies making comments and whining over something that don't fully understand. How sad. Anyway, great move by MS. Allowing Windows to run on any phone the same way they do with PCs will no doubt increase thier market share.
so would this work with a note 4?
I would put this on my Android M8 in a second. I never understood, other than profit, that HTC didn't let us do this anyway.
One for Sony xperia please, with Sony apps please!
Do you people even read before posting? The announcement clearly states that W10 will be on any device, making that "lack of flagship" crap redundant, because we will be able to flash Android out of e.g. Galaxy S6 and enjoy the new and butter smooth OS that is Windows.
Best hardware devices are on Android, put a WP10 or whatever Windows and BOOM. good luck with the firmware updates
Moto X supported? :D Would be awesome.
Excellent idea
I'd like to have a Windows Phone that includes an Android emulator so I can run both Windows and Android apps. I guess that's impossible so turning Androids into Windows Phones is the next best way to reduce Android's global market share of phone OS.
Yes, just like PCs I we want dual boot.
MIND = BLOWN
Services! Services! Services! Services! Services! Services! Services! This is why Cortana and all the once Windows phone exclusive apps are being ported to IOS and Android. Its all about getting people hooked on Microsoft software and services. Its also why Windows phone is not going away Microsoft will always have their own phones for the new first time phone buyers, and for those enticed enough to make the switch. If not they'll try to basically turn iphones and android into pseudo Windows phones because of the Microsoft services they are running. Sounds like a smart LONG term plan to me
Gimme... NOW!
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cough*s6*cough*
I like Windows phone because it is more secure than Android I'll take security over popularity especially in this day and age
Microsoft should make a ROM for chromebooks to run Windows 10 IoT
The only thing that makes google popular is its first party apps and customization. Not every app for google runs smoothly and not every OEM can optimize for the platform correctly. The truth is android is just a springboard platform for google to advertise. They are not a software company they are an advertisement company. Apple is a software and hardware company and Microsoft is a software and now hardware company as well. Yes sure google was smart to package their first party apps with the is, the same Microsoft did back then with IE,office and other things. Times change and so do smart people and change is coming. Just one of Microsoft ways of breaking up the boring smartphone space the we have now. Dev who care more about money only go where the money is and right now that is not on windows. Dev that have a passion for the job that they are doing will create great things no matter the platform.
Let's be realistic: Microsoft isn't making much money with Windows Phone.
Microsoft doesn't care anymore you use Windows 10 on a Android phone because it's not making money on the OS but with the associated services.
A Windows phone is becoming just a phone running Windows. And, we'll still get Signature-edition phones, phones built specifically with Windows in mind like with the Lumia product line.
That being said, if you've never tried Windows Phone and have an old Android phone or your daily Android smartphone is starting to become slooow... Then, here is an incentive to try something new you wouldn't have considered otherwise. And just remember the implication of one important information dating back from the WP7 days: 80% of the users who tried WP liked it! :)
Hmm...this is really interesting. I wonder if that means they'll put this out there for consumers to play with, or if this will just exist for hardware partners to continue the path of putting already released Android devices out as Windows ones. If this came out for consumers, it would be really cool, but I'd want there to be a a way roll back to Android, if desired. This would primarily apply to if a user needed to replace a device under warranty. I imagine that switching the OS would cause problems there.
They can get windows 10 to run on android phones but on surface rt and 2. WTF!
Think about it... a OnePlus with Windows 10... two good things at the same time :-)
What about letting current WP user get access to WP10 before knocking on the competitors door! :-/
That's awesome!!
Very interesting. Hope they expand the list of hardware manuf. Think about it. If Microsoft is able to put their OS on any hardware, that would blow the market wide open. I'm already thinking about the Samsung S5 Active and loading Win10 on it. Anyone that knows me, knows how much I have been waiting for a ruggedized device that will run WP.
I don't understand how an android phone can run full windows 10 but the Surface RT cannot? http://www.windowscentral.com/microsofts-windows-10-upgrade-path-chart-s...
Great to see a more mobile Microsoft. Nimble in terms of substantial change of strategies and engagement. From a shareholders perspective, I imagine share prices to slide a bit. Revenue streams will theoretically increase by wider adoption of windows. But not easy sell.
ohhh....Sounds like a HUGE game changer to me... :)
Woo hoo!!! Windows 10 ROM for my Nexus 5! I can't wait! Well....it won't be much different than running Windows on my 1520 as they both have the same processor.
This is great news!
WOW, I can get a LG G3 (pretty bad ass phone) and put Windows 10 for phone on it ? Freaking sweet. Sign me up !
Will it install like "Windows" or do you need a custom rom for each phone (drivers, chipsets, etc) ? Hmmmm. could be a nightmare...
Heh heh...this is big! That's why Android users love their phones anyway is because of loading ROMs. This. Is. Epic. I hope WM10 is adopted more for this exact reason :)
So I can flash Windows 10 on HTC M9 or Note 4?
As a current android user (nexus 5) who misses a lot about windows phone (used it from the focus to the 920, then no new flagship came) I am pumped about this. There are a handful of things I like in android that would be nice to have ported through this ROM, which i assume some industrious hacker out there will figure out, but for the most part i am on android because of the hardware.
Oh crap, I can see a puddle at Google's feet...
But they can't bring android to windows phone?
I'd love to flash these on my small tablet.
Perfect. Now we know what Microsoft was likely negotiating for with Samsung a month or so ago. So Microsoft builds a ROM for Galaxy S6 and Samsung offers it as an option. Deal. If all the top Android phones are available as Windows Phones, that could be a nice range of device options.
Lol wat about IPhones? Imagining windows on a iPhone
And what about install Android on Windows 10 for phones
some reverse engineering will likely to happen
Biggest twist :D
Instead of asking other android players for tryout their OS, MS should concentrate on Best future proof High and Mid Range Flagship phones in 2015.
Re: Kylecpcs, WOW losing apps "daily"! So 100s? Each and every day? "Dead Platform"? Or is that an exaggeration? I can think of 4 and there must be other insignificant ones we haven't heard of, but "daily"? The trolls / haters say things like that.
Best Wishes
It's happening!
Its a smart move, Microsoft can get partners who will allow w10 to run on their devices. It'll be like the htc one with wp8. I can see LG, Samsung and HTC agreeing to this. Gives people heaps more options in terms of devices, especially high end ones, who want to try w10.
And yet Windows Insider subscribers on non low end devices are still waiting to try it out....
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Ehm... I think a lot of you are misunderstanding the whole thing, guys.
This ROM will REPLACE Android on the device, leaving it being a Windows device. It will not be a dual-boot thing, or a Windows emulator on Android. And yes, Microsoft is giving Windows 10 for free, just like it is doing now with Windows 8.1 for small screen devices (including Windows Phone 8.1).
Microsoft and the manufacturer(s) will probably collaborate to release an app similar to the Lumia Recovery Software Tool or the one used to downgrade to Windows Phone 8.1 if you have problems with Windows Insider program.
It's a nice and smart move, and alongside the free upgrade to Windows 10, it could really help with the market share thing. And once we have a decent market share, developers will think twice before giving us the middle finger.
PS: I really wants this to work and to be a potential threat for those assh*les at Google. I want them to suffer for treating us as a second-class user (even though I'm not a Google services user).
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Yeas
This could be good. I got an old android in the drawer. It would be nice to install Windows X on it and keep it as a back up phone. This could be good. Really good.
NOW that is GOOD News. Can't wait to load onto my HTC M7. However obviously you're device will have to be " ROOTED ". Cheers from Down Under.
NOW that is Good NEWS. Perhaps the end of WP Devices? ROLL IT ON, Can't wait to install on my HTC M7. Cheers from Down Under.
Mwahahahahahahaha!!
Z3 Compact with W10????
Nadella: Let them all buy the Android phones they want. We'll install Windows 10 afterwards. Hehe..
Myerson: And if they decide to go back to Android, we'll only let them flash with CyanogenMod with Microsoft apps!
Belfiore: Muahahaha...
I think people are overreacting to this. It doesn't mean every android devices released will be able to run WP.
Even if flagship android devices can run WP, I wouldn't expect a lot of people to switch. If they wanted WP they would have gotten it in the first place. A small number of users might give WP a try, but id imagine 95% of them will go bs to android when they see that 1) not all of the apps they had on android aren't in the WP store or 2) the WP version of the apps haven't been updated in a long time and are inferior.
I don't see this doing as much as people in this thread think. It looks like it will end up being Asha 2.0
if Microsoft can give win10 for android device then y they cant get apps and games from android
I don't like this idea for infinite reasons.
Nice, i predicted this when W10 was announced. Also no reason why you can't port a ROM to an Apple phone either. Just jailbreak it, then write a ROM to work with the components. Ios is Linux after all just like android.
Microsoft pls focus on the Lumia win10 until you complete release the update for us, then only talk about rom customization for other platform.
I don't think MI user will flash.
YESS!! I hope I can install it on my againg Galaxy Tab 2 (strugling with 5.0 Lollipop). It would definetly help with market share. Imagine Microsoft telling people to ""SWITCH" to a whole new phone, WITHOUT BUYING A NEW PHONE" <<< That would be epic for markets like Brazil! :D
Love the LG G2 hardware, miss WP OS...I would put WP on it if everything worked :)
Wow... this is pretty cool! So if I jump ship and buy an SGS5, what are the chances I'll get a Win10 ROM for it down the road? J/K... but seriously though...
I want all my colleagues to be a windows phone users... Prayer have been answered.
now u r welcoming the android to windows family... what nonsense..
If this will be the same Windows 10 found on phones from Microsoft with no limitations and stuff I think I will buy a OnePlus One and flash this rom on it. Unless the phones from Microsoft will have some really big advantages.
And that's why Windows Phone will die, many users will switch to Android phones because of this decision.
So this only works with this one phone? Why is everyone acting like every android phone will be able to do this?
Because the title states "Android smarthphones will run Windows 10 for phones". Not just only Xiaomi.
Any XDA developer can easily port this ROM to other devices, don't say that it's impossible, because they can do it.
Yeah but they aren't going to waste time porting this to old devices.
So I can run Windows 10 on an android device but can i still run Android apps? If so, there's absolutely no reason to get an actual win10 device, regardless of performance.
Not sure you can. A ROM removes the Play Store. In China that's not a problem since the majority of Android phones there aren't Google certified anyway and don't have the Play Store to begin with. Outside of China this means you'd be left without the Play Store and therefore without a real reason to install the ROM at all. Unless Microsoft makes Google apps compatible with their ROM and puts in the Amazon store or something. But they can't put the Play Store there for legal reasons.
That's a good point, but I guess it remains to be seen if apks can still be sideloaded.
When cyanogen gets ahold of this it will be the perfect OS w10 with gapps.
Posted via the Lumia 1520!
OMFG
I will install it in VM.
So MS can do this, but they couldn't give WP8 to WP7 owners? Oh snap...
Dude, seriously? It was clear that WP7 wouldn't get WP8... WP7 had a different kernel so they couldn't upgrade to WP8. This has nothing to do with that.
As if Android doesn't have a different kernel? Yeah, that's my point.
Too funny
I wonder if this so called rom will be qaulcomm chipset exclusive or if it will work with exynos, nvidia, or mediatek. Could definately be a game changer if it happens and becomes bigger than cyanogen you could almost double marketshare in the U.S
Not likely. Cyanogen can access google apps, play store and amazon. If people want apps, the google ecosystem, how would this change anything?
Brilliant move by Microsoft!
And please... Make Windows available for Android tablets next. I got a 17 inch HP slate running Android for free and it is only collecting dust. Let me have Windows 10 on this thing and it will actually become usable.
can anyone provide that startscreen background in the image?
The amount of delusion around here is astonishing...
From Android's >80% of market share, if 10% of people use ROMs it would be too much. But the reality is that the vast majority of Android users do NOT use ROMs. First because they don't know what they are, secondly because they don't know how to install them and thirdly because it immediately voids any legal warranty.
This is an interesting gimmick but just like there aren't flocks of people installing Android on Windows machines, there won't be flocks installing Windows Phone 10 on Android devices.
Microsoft would get more people if they released a WP10 launcher than a ROM.
Thank you.
I think you'll find a launcher soon. The new Kernal is very open to other chipsets hense the whole IoT. As to flocks of android doing this, true it will not be flocks... But it opens interesting opportunities.
Can you post the background?
Will this actually work?
Again Microsoft share there ROM to android.
what's your plan Ms....
MS share there almost all feature if ms share more features. I am transfer windows phone to android.
Windows phoneshit is dead ain't going nowhere
Lumia is gonna die ur wrong. Its still the best low range smartphone
So, the HTC HD2 Return.....
Braking news
Windows phone is gonna come out of BETA IN 2027
CONGRATULATIONS WINDOWS PHONESHIT
Go home troll you lost.
Hey shit, how much scroogle paid you?
I got now the Galaxy S4 with Cyanogenmod. For sure im hopping over! At the end of this year i hope to get the Lumia 940
Dutchyee
You're going to regret it I did the same and i got stuck with the fu....ng phone WINDOWS PHONESHIT IS DEAD
Well you sure have a neutral opinion on this considering your username...
Ooh nice, when released into the wild I'm sure there are many talented devs who would able to shoe horn it into other devices not officially supported. In the process holes may be found and subsequently patched. All the while increasing the reach of Microsoft's services.
Of course you can't rule out the possibility some may try to "link" to the google play store to "run" those apps.
Yeah! I'm waiting for xda to post something. I'm not sure I like this idea much but I'll play with out a bit. Can't see it gaining market share for msft. Honestly, why buy an android phone then root and rom, voiding warranty to try out something you could buy a £40 for... Just odd!
Braking news
Windows phone is gonna come out of BETA IN 2027
CONGRATULATIONS WINDOWS PHONESHIT
Ooooh just in time for your 18th birthday. Yay you!
Yay braking news! I lerve braking news!
Microsoft has announced many things lately....but still no win10 preview for more phones :(
Hmm Windows phone on without an Snapdragon SoC. It's about time. I wonder what Qualcomm will think about that?
They gonna do the same shit they been doing for the past 5 years NOTHING
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Awesome
A LG G3 with WP would be cool.
What's the b point of having a smartphone with no apps no customizable build out of cheap plastic and no more than a 1080p screen resolution
When I fan get a SUMSUNG NOTE 4 SONY XPEDEA Z3 OR ANY OTHER NICE LOOKING ANDROID DEVICES with a 1440p screen resolution hahhahah
Me got NORKEA LOOOMEAR wit 41meGpXles. /s ffs.
Well nobody is forcing you to buy a Windows Phone. If you want a Android phone, go ahead and buy that Samsung Note 4 or Sony Xperia. So what are you trying to achieve commenting here on Windows Central?
My two years old WP is still getting update & behaving like a new phone. But my friends two months old crapdroid cant get lolipop and behaving like a DEA phone. Symbian is Better thn crapdroid
Now MS got just 1 job---make windows 10 better than android and people will definitely switch over...
Shots fired
Roger that...... Google has been hit (affirmative)
Aight, I'll laugh when XDA gets a Windows 10 ROM working for iPhone!
Hahaha if that happens I would buy an iPhone to flash Windows 10 on it, and put the Microsoft Unicorn/Ninja Cat sticker on the Apple logo to piss some Apple fanboys off xD
I love the idea, please do it as soon as possible omg xDDDD
You clearly did not read the article. How the retards have multiplied.
Me like this! very very much! hahahaha and flashing Android over Nokia/Lumia phones are not allowed! Nice! I hope you can just download this and install. GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY RAISE TO THE POWER OF N
They will never going to have stable app because they can only use WEBAPPS so forget about it and do youself a favor and get an ANDROID OS Phone
Thanks. I'm deffo going to buy an Android phone based on your incoherent recommendation ;)
I'm an ex Windows Phone developer but never got to finish my app before the radio station closed down, I can tell you now you're talking out of your arse.
Your childlike ramblings has piqued my interest, I too am getting a android phone ;)
I think, your brain is damaged after using crapdroid.
MS lets focus on store first!
STOP wasting your time
WINDOWS PHONEHIT WILL NEVER going to get stable apps because windows phoneshit only support webapps they will never tell you that
That's why all the apps are on beta for years
Just get..........a grasp of the English language. Then people may actually pay attention to the nonsense you are currently spouting;)
You idiot
You replied to the wrong person! Unless of course you believe in the rubbish Karlosfirst is spouting?!
Just get a ANDROID PHONE and forget about CRAPPIE APPS FOREVER BETA TESTING OS crappie phones cheap
Crap OS with good apps....OR, excellent OS with fewer apps.
I prefer to back the system that has more potential in the future. Android is just a data miner for Google. & quite honestly, it doesn't matter how many apps they have, I simply refuse to give them a licence to target their advertising at me!
A Google run world is not something any of us should aspire to support.
(P.S., the apps I use on Windows Phone are actually better than their iOS/Android counterparts! If you can't be bothered to seek out such options, then more fool you)
@Karlosfirst.
Take your glued eyeballs of the screen and get some fresh air, it would do you a world of good :P.
This crapdroid fan is already feeling insecure just by an announcement.....MS going in right direction
So I don't need windows phone device to have windows great
Nothing has changed there... BlueWin, HTC, Samsung... Etc....
This must be called..
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Project - Invasion Normandy! Freaking awesome Title! :D
So I'm a bit confused... Is this a forked version of Android that runs a lot like Windows 10 (Like Cyanogen was a highly customized version of Android), or this is designed to completely flash the OS and install regular Windows 10 on the device?
I'm assuming the former, simply because it's technologically more feasible, but the latter would be really cool.
No, they are releasing a full Windows 10 ROM so they can get Chinese user feedback.
WP has negligible market share in China, so this is a sensible way of accessing the v.devoted & technically literate Xiaomi users.
Whether it expands to other Android devices is unclear. But the MI4 WILL have a full Windows 10 ROM available to it (and Android will likely be completely removed in the process)
Ahh, makes sense. Thanks.
I can see a lot of people liking this, personally however I don't know which device I could possibly pick that's better than my Lumia 1520.
Sure there's the GS Note 4 or GS6E but they're both too small. They provide a fairly small boost in processing power and honestly that's not what I'm lacking. I want a 1520 replacement with same size screen, fingerprint sensor, pen support, better front facing camera and dual SIM capability. Edge style screen like the GS6E is nice, but obviously no Windows 10 support.
Any talk of being able to run WP10 on any device and having more device options now that you can just install the ROM is useless. That isn't going to happen. The reason you ask? In order to install the ROM the phone would need an unlocked bootloader so that it could boot just to windows. Most of the carriers lock their bootloaders so you can't do stuff like that until someone else figures out a way to unlock it. If it is even possbile to unlock it. Samsung phones on Verizon anyone? So the only option you will have is to buy developer editions for full price at $600-$1000 depending on the phone or hope that the other OEM's decide to port WP10 to their devices. It a nice idea. Gonna die in the execution phase though since only a small minority will be able to run it.
Haha haha
You guys think SAMSUNG is going to waists time and premium materials on a DEAD NEVER BEEN ALIVE BORING CRAPPIE OS you got to be kidding meee SAMSUNG never made and never will make not even a mid range phone for winshit phone 10 look at LG hahaha they told microshit we will not going to make a winshit phone
LG is actually working on a windows 10 phone behind the scenes. Testing the waters per say. Again, excuse me but are you high?
Hey bitch, first check your brain
Samsung has made and is making a Windows phone. So fangirl above is just plain stupid.
Hay shit, you are just a shit in the wrong place
GTFO of here
Wow .. Than whats is deference between Windows Phone & Android Phone ?... Windows is unic system... . Microsoft is doing bullshit
Its smart move by Microsoft, it will increase the market share of WP. Btw, after installing WP on android phones, they will become WP. So, its not bull shit.
Can anyone send me that wallpaper of windows phone. Link is also great.
I was sticking with wp coz of its exclusivity... Now android users can hv gun with wp too... No exclusivity,,, time to switch... Dnt blame ios for being expensive... Its expensive coz its unique... Here i come!!
It's not going to support android apps... ever e.e
As awesome as this sounds, Microsoft needs to make sure that W10 for phones is affordable when it comes out. Maybe have a timed trial version once it gets out of beta.
Only 2% (or something like that) of Android users are switching roms regularly. Why the hell would make a Windows Rom any difference?
Because it's getting more normal to flash a ROM by the minute. Especially when it's easier to do, people are likely to start flashing ROMs. Besides, 2% is not even close to accurate..
I wonder what they'll call it, Windroid??? Lol
Dualboot...?
so I don't need to buy a windows phone, just get an android and use this rom, great :-(
Finally MS applying some tincture for wounded fans like me... Great Going.. Keep it up MS :)
That means I probably won´t have to throw away my older Android phones.
Bhai aayegi kab windows 10 update lumai 535 mein
Now with this move, we can have a news of getting Android app support on my windows phone. That might be the one of the reason wp developers quitting the WP store.
I hope windows platform grows with this move and this is a wise decision.
This isn't going to happen... You do realize this is Microsoft right? They don't care for Android outside of its users and offering their services to them.
And 2, this ROM replaces the OS with Windows 10, no android app support will ever happen. :)
If that is the case. Then i am pleased. But windows should focus on apps ecosystem then. Otherwise this ROM thing will be a failure.
To me, it looks like MSFT is allowing this move so that Devs who then make apps for the Android/WP10 amalgamation, will ultimatley have to make the Apps to run W10 hence run on WindowsPhones.
No doubt Google will still block there services.
of course they will, but Google is digging their own grave by keeping us in the dark. More and more people are starting to realize that Google is acting evil and does not deserve their monopoly on the smartphone market
We still have 3 better u tube apps then the official ones and doesn't include ads at all.
Hmmm... Not sure. This is a launcher, not a full rom requiring root. People install it, realise they need boa and go back to the default and don't look back. What I mean to say I'd that it could back fire. Windows doesn't have every app. Will windows 10 (for pc) change that? Will devs begin to bother with msft? For mobile? I hope so but this I don't see as helping. Wp10 on a gs6. Because Samsung won't make their flagship for msft. Isn't Nokia making their excellent z launcher for android? How's that going? I am not sure I like this turn. Smells of desperation. Desperation to be market relevant - msft is pulling a Zune, they have the cash to burn. Hmmm. Not sure about this at all.
It's a risk they take, but things do look positive so far. If they keep on pushing things like these, they'll win in the end
A good start would be getting banks to stop leaving. And, of course, instagram. I hope you're right - my 1520 is a solid phone, though the browser needs to be better and openvpn would be seriously useful. It's the apathy towards this platform that is the issue. Perhaps msft should bite the bullet and offer free 640's for every xbox live member. Every one. That would increase market penetration in an instant. Would cost but better integrated services and all the test - boa and instagram and snap chat would be foolish to ignore that. As would the rest.
Brilliant. They have a huge problem with the market being saturated in the west. This is the only way they can really make ppl with abandoned android phones revive them.
Because "being different" (or, actually "less the same"), seems to be what counts the most to people these days.
None of the recent moves are going to benefit WP fans. But that's the point: a company can't rely on a small hardcore group of fans, it needs to reach out for the masses.
This will flash Windows 10 on the device, wiping out Android.
If you decide to buy one of the supported Android devices, the OEM will have to pay Microsoft the royalties for having Android from stock, generating more money that could be invested in Windows.
Then you flash Windows on that device, reducing the Android market share and increasing the Windows ecosystem by one. And then you have the benefit of buying the hardware you want and let it run whatever you like more, Windows or Android.
Multiply this and you will have a new and more interesting number to attract developers to the platform. And a potential threat to Google interests.
So, there are benefits for consumers and Microsoft too. :)
Imagine a galaxy S6 edge running this ! wow !
Why winshit doesn't go ANDROID I used to be like you waiting for winshit to come up with something useful and is 2015 and still no APPS NO CUSTOMIZATION AVERYTHING STILL on beta the apps the os never mind about the phones they're all crappie plastic cheap ugly even HTC came up with the M8 for Windows phone and failed I don't know what else to tell you guys but to get out of winshit and join ANDROID stabled lots of APPS nice premium devices
Moderator please remove obvious delusional fangirl from this message board.
Oh look a mentally deficient troll that has no clue where he is or what he is saying! :D
Excuse me sir but are you high?
Your brain is filled with shit
Hmm pretty interesting, let see if MS can pull it off
A flashable custom rom of Windows 10...
This is going to be interesting...
Can't wait to see if it's going to be like how HTC does it or if it's truly flashable with a custom recovery like all other custom roms.
If the later then this is truly huge because the walls just came down around WP os.
Posted from my HTC M8
Wow. Good move by MS. I can't wait to see how this plays out!
No chance. Windows phone os is shite. I'm off back to android as soon as the HTC one m9 is released
Based on the heatmap benchmark, good luck cooking your bacon on it.
Could go the other way too... Google could make a Android ROM for windows phone.
What's the idea?
Haha
People still here
People still got hope of winshit I use to be like you people waited 3 years of my precious life waiting for MS to come up with something useful and is 2015 and still no APPS no customisation shit you guys love to wasting time
ANDROID NE THAKARKKANULLA PSYCOLOGICAL MOVEMENT
never forget
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