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It's not clear whether manual backups will be possible after auto-backups do eventually finish. almost two YEARS ago! Clearly someone at Microsoft has forgotten to turn this service off*, which is handy.

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I'm just making the point that Edge was actually pretty great when it launched in Windows 10 Mobile at the time.

Pages have grown since 2015, web technologies have evolved, and precisely zero web developers are testing against such an old (2016 era) browser. Just as when Symbian's Web browser was deemed old hat in 2013-2015 because web sites and technologies had 'moved on', the same is largely true now for Edge (in v1709). Roughly half the PWAs out there work, roughly half don't - see the Flow column on AAWP for recommendations of the former! Third party browsers all ultimately have the same underlying restrictions for PWAs and some other HTML5-reliant sites. Which makes it something of a dead end if you're looking for more. But its development stopped as of Windows 10 branch 1703 almost four years ago, effectively, since the 1709 branch's Edge wasn't fully rounded out (in terms of service worker and other background operation). Actually flashing them on is VERY non-trivial, so I'll save a tutorial for when the official utilities break! Update: Lumiafirmware is down, so try Įdge remains a competent browser for most plain sites. If all else fails, sites like appear to have archived all the device images from Microsoft's servers. (* There's a question mark over OTC Updater, but here's the workaround.) No end date is known, I'd guess, some time in 2022 or beyond. I can't imagine the download bandwidth here amounts to much, but Microsoft will, at some point, shut down these servers, probably because things are changing server-side to accommodate new services and platforms. If something goes horribly wrong and you need a fresh start then there are a couple of PC-based utilities to help out (WDRT - see the patch, plus OTC Updater*), though they rely on the original phone 'images' being still available on Microsoft's servers. I'd suggest that lack of support also means that people at Microsoft won't be testing services against Windows 10 Mobile any more, but we all know that they haven't been doing this for some time, sadly. Theoretically, the OS is now 'vulnerable', though in practice Windows 10 Mobile is now battle hardened and also an utterly miniscule target for attackers, so the lack of updates won't actually be an issue. The last update was in January 2020 - and was for the newest 1709 branch. Note that some dates are approximate, since we can't see into the future with certainty! I've colour coded table cells, with pale red for 'on the way out, with workarounds and caveats', through increasingly dark shades, and red for 'no hope!'. Which means that it's hard to keep track of it all - hence the table below, which I'll keep updated every month.

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Post the final OS update by a full two years we're in a declining phase of the OS, where most of the stuff that ever worked properly still works, but things are definitely now falling off the edges, as it were.