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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“Beautifully flat, ahead of its time, and stranded by its own family.”
Windows Phone 7 launched worldwide on October 21, 2010 as a complete overhaul of Microsoft's mobile Windows efforts, successor to Windows Mobile 6.5 and built on the Windows CE 6.0 R3 kernel. Its flat, Metro interface was distinct and unmistakable — a phone that looked like nothing else in your pocket. The trade-off for that fresh start was a clean break: it couldn't run Windows Mobile 6 applications.
The end came fast. Windows Phone 8 arrived on October 29, 2012 on an incompatible foundation, so no Windows Phone 7.x hardware could make the jump. As a compromise, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.8 on January 31, 2013 with a few backported touches, but support for Windows Phone 7 ended January 8, 2013, and for 7.5 and 7.8 on October 14, 2014.
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“Your homepage, your rules — the web tidied up, and somehow felt less like home.”
“It held the door open to the web for millions, then politely showed itself out.”
“Thinner, lighter, and gone before we got tired of looking at it”