{"id":13149,"date":"2022-02-10T02:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T02:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2023-03-09T23:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T23:19:38","slug":"why-windows-phone-failed-and-how-it-could-have-dominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/why-windows-phone-failed-and-how-it-could-have-dominated\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Windows Phone failed and how it could have dominated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/i\/microsoft\/\">Microsoft<\/a> has held onto their relevance over the past decades with their PC operating system <a href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/i\/windows\/\">Windows<\/a>. Their relevance in the desktop world has not been seen as yet in the mobile world with various attempts at it. This piece takes a look at the <a title=\"Windows Phone\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/i\/windows\/\">Windows Phone<\/a> and how it could have been around at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gtech-migrated-from-ad-inserter-placement-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-4183287867\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-4281310683\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/75343\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"jesdphis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis.avif\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis.avif 1179w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis-768x950.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><p>Why Windows Phone fail, how it could have dominated. The clip below from Business Casual does a fine digest of it and you should point a click at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Windows Phone Failed - And How They Could&#039;ve Saved It\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m60m25m3sD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why Windows Phone Failed &#8211; And How They Could&#8217;ve Saved It<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft is into a <a href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/tag\/virtual-reality\/\">VR <\/a>(<a href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/i\/microsoft-hololens\/\">Microsoft HoloLens<\/a>) project that goes with the name Project Baraboo with potential to help the company take a jive at mobile and immersive experience. As yet, it is still early days with Virtual Reality; rulers abound. Facebook shortly after their <a href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/whatsapp-facebook-instagram-infrastructure-down\/\">infrastructure downtime<\/a> made a name switch to Meta with a proposal of a <a href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/i\/metaverse\/\">Metaverse<\/a>. Hmm, whiles there is high potential with augmented reality and its subsets of possibilities, there is no telling of its staunch survival as more possibilities will show up in the coming days of future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"more-information\">More Information<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m60m25m3sD8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Why Windows Phone Failed - And How They Could've Saved It\">Why Windows Phone Failed &#8211; And How They Could&#8217;ve Saved It<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"gtech-end-cont\" id=\"gtech-777508518\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-2400580520\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/17207\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"26001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their relevance in the desktop world has not been seen as yet in the mobile world with various attempts at it. This piece takes a look at the Windows Phone and how it could have been around at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1128,1678,545,1679,1071,888],"class_list":["post-13149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-docuvideos","tag-metaverse","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-hololens","tag-mobile-computing","tag-windows"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}