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Windows Phone had its annoyances, but I wish they'd held onto it - particularly now with more and more M365 subscription-based ecosystem push. A highly securabl
by fencepost 6y ago
Windows Phone had its annoyances, but I wish they'd held onto it - particularly now with more and more M365 subscription-based ecosystem push. A highly securable device with solid versions of Office, Teams, Outlook, Authenticator and other MS-owned products could actually be viable, and if they keep on with the ARM-based Surface Pro X family then ARM-based processors in phones wouldn't be a big stretch.
- stonogo 6y agoIronically, Windows Phones clients never fully supported Microsoft's enterprise line -- specifically, the 'Outlook' app did not support shared calendards or even multiple calendars associated with one account. Digging into the application revealed that it re-used an open-source syncing library instead of being a Microsoft-built implementation! Exchange support was the bulk of the appeal for the platform for me, and lack thereof is the reason I moved on to Android, where I had real support for a more full-featured toolset.
- atesti 6y agoHow were you able to dig into the appliaction? Is it possible to get Windows phone excecutables and decompile them using ilspy etc.?
- brnt 6y agoI've used multiple calenders per account without issue on my Windows phones.
- stonogo 6y agoCongratulations, I guess. That support was not present back when Microsoft had a chance at being taken seriously in the mobile space. It's moot now.
- brnt 6y agoI've been using this feature since I started using Winphones back in 2015.
- stonogo 6y agoWhich was right around the beginning of the end: https://www.statista.com/statistics/236034/global-smartphone-os-market-share-of-windows-mobile/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/236034/global-smartphone... By 2015, we're talking about Windows Phone 10. After 7, 8, and 8.1, the world was pretty much done with Windows Phone. Microsoft pulled the plug less than two years later.
- fencepost 6y agoShortcomings in Outlook (or any of the Office apps really) seem like the kind of thing Microsoft would be in a position to fix with a little time investment - particularly if they're going to have those same apps on the Pro X not running in an emulator.