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You can now try Microsoft's dual-screen Windows Phone OS on a Surface Duo

In 2018, Microsoft canceled plans to ship a new Windows-based OS designed from the ground up for a new dual-screen phone form factor, codenamed Andromeda. This special version of Windows would have ...
Digital Trends

You can now try the Windows phone OS that Microsoft never released

Before Microsoft shipped the Surface Duo with Android, it was meant to run a custom version of Windows called Andromeda OS, built specifically for dual-screen devices. That plan was quietly scrapped ...
The Next Web

Newly discovered video shows off Nokia’s Windows Phone plans

Mobile watchdog MyNokiaBlog recently uncovered a very interesting video: A clip that shows off a handful of Nokia handsets running the Windows Phone operating system, we assume 7.5, and also provides ...
Time

Windows Phone 7.5: Microsoft’s Overachieving Underdog

Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Windows Phone: A 20-year retrospective of a meandering mobile strategy

Microsoft might repurpose the Windows Phone operating system for small (7 inch or less displays) inexpensive tablets tuned to work with its Skype Internet voice and video calling service. In a world ...