https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/10/buh_bye_windows_phone/

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay final respects to Microsoft's last foray into the mobile phone market: the Windows Phone.

It should have all been so different. Launched at the dawn of a new decade, Microsoft positioned the platform as a replacement for its ageing Windows Mobile OS, which had suffered a catastrophic loss of market share at the hands of the artist formerly known as RIM and Apple.