It's mourning week in the Windows Phone community, after Microsoft killed off version 8.1 of the operating system, and as it this wasn't disappointing enough, the company decided to publish a new Windows 10 Mobile build for Fast ring insiders that brings basically nothing new.
In fact, this should come as little surprise to insiders participating in the testing program of Windows 10 Mobile, as all builds shipped as part of the Redstone 3 branch have been entirely about bug fixing, with no new features whatsoever.
And this is also the case of Windows 10 Mobile build 15230, which comes with only 3 minor improvements that made us yawn twice when reading them the first time.
But because some people might actually be excited about this, it's worth mentioning them all, though this shouldn't take too long.
First of all, the new Mobile build come with a fix for a VPN profile that was always displayed as connected, for a notification issue between the Bluetooth Support Service and device background services for fitness bands, and for a bug impacting Caller ID matching in Japan and Denmark.
The highly-anticipated mobile overhaulAnd that's all. Unfortunately, after seeing Windows Phone 8.1 going dark earlier this week, Microsoft killing the LinkedIn app for Windows phones, and this build bringing absolutely nothing new to the table, it's more than obvious that Redmond's no longer interested in mobile, at least not for the time being.
There are reports that Microsoft is working on a mobile overhaul, with a device already being tested within the Redmond campus, but until then, pretty much everyone will have left for Android and iOS if the same release approach is maintained.
For what it's worth, today's new build is only aimed at the Fast ring, though we're pretty sure there's no reason to be upset if you're part of the Slow ring and you didn't get it.
Source: Microsoft Launched a New Windows 10 Mobile Build But You Probably Missed It
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