goodbye yellow brick road (winmo)

**austin420** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 12:02 PM

well, today marks the death blow to winmo6.x(6.1,6.5,6.5.5). well, maybe not quite that serious.

micro soft is shutting down the app store for winmo. i got this email yeaterday, as im sure a lot of you may have. in true winmo fashion, i actually got it 3 time to the same email addy. i see they still dont have it together. lol.
i didnt use this market place much, mostly i got my cabs and tweaks from here and freewarepocketpc.net , but its still a shame to see.
since there is no supported market, and no new development, what may be the fututre of windows mobile? will it just dissapear like the ancients? will it go open source or abandonware?
lets all try hard to not let ppcgeeks suffer the same fate.

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piscesjoey · #2 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 12:08 PM

Yeah I got the same email yesterday, damn it really is the end of the road for WinMo

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**austin420** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 12:18 PM

put it this way, you really have to leave the beaten path to find support for winmo.
one ? though, did you recieve the email 3 times? i feel like theyre spammin me!

**Riley** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 12:55 PM

I'm a bit surprised they couldn't still keep this up for a while. It's not like Microsoft doesn't have the resources to do so. But I guess they feel it's time to move one completely. It's a shame though but thankfully there are many options available and it's just a matter of deciding what works best for people.

piscesjoey · #5 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by austin420

put it this way, you really have to leave the beaten path to find support for winmo.
one ? though, did you recieve the email 3 times? i feel like theyre spammin me!

No they only sent it once to me

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**orangekid** · #6 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 05:34 PM

sad times

EyeB · #7 (**permalink**) 03-09-2012, 08:15 PM

hm i thought they were dead last year :S I know they didn't shut it down, but with no new apps being added, I've already downloaded all the cab files I needed and haven't used marketplace since I got the phone...

kind of sad that MS plans to do this while the WP7 isn't exactly making news yet (I know it gets it's ads on news, but isn't same as apple/google). I just can't see how turning away people while not picking up more than lost users is a plan for success :S

**austin420** · #8 (**permalink**) 04-10-2012, 12:08 AM

so, ummm, i got this email 3 times again today.

**austin420** · #9 (**permalink**) 05-02-2012, 12:33 PM

came again today, youd think if they hyped it this much while it was still around, it may have done a little better!

eric12341 · #10 (**permalink**) 05-02-2012, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by austin420

came again today, youd think if they hyped it this much while it was still around, it may have done a little better!

It was launched too late, would've done better if it came out a year before it did. Plus lots of the apps in there were really expensive. That was one thing about WM my cousin used to always complain about which forced her to Android.