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>The Authenticator app is available for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile, but regrettably, while the first two include the new feature, Microsoft has not see
by ghostly_s 10y ago
>The Authenticator app is available for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 Mobile, but regrettably, while the first two include the new feature, Microsoft has not seen fit to add it to the version of the software that runs on its own platform, citing low usage. The eternal chicken-and-egg situation of low usage both causing weak app support and being caused by weak app support continues to be something that Microsoft has little interest in fixing.
Is this really still surprising people? Hasn't the messaging that Windows Phone is a dead platform been loud and clear for years now? The still haven't released the current-gen Outlook client on it.
- phalangion 10y agoI think that has been clear to most people for a long time. But one would still hope that a software vendor would support their own software.
- vezycash 10y agoNadella inherited Windows Phone at 6-15% in most markets. His actions, and inactions sent it's market share to 0.+%. AFAIK this feels like intentional sabotage to please Wall Street and a few vocal shareholders - the same people who wanted to kill/sell Bing, Xbox and even Surface. Outrightly canceling WP would have cause a massive protest but strangling it and dropping it for "low usage?"...