That appears to be the case, see e.g. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-...

Boy, I think this is the final blow for Microsoft's smartphone ambitions. Whatever technological advantage they would have had is now gone. Their strategy was all over the place in terms of platform - pretty much every version of Windows Phone AFAIK required a rewrite because of constantly shifting grounds.

Not necessarily, all mobile phones are ARM based and continuum is already here.

Yes, the rewrites were shitty.

Apple and Google also do it, but they can allow themselves to push the developers through them.

Smartphones are all about ecosystems, and as the various Microsoft efforts there have shown, Apple and Google now have that locked up. However they don't do the x86/Windows ecosystems in phone space and not Apple in tablet space, and now no one will find out how much demand there was for x86 Windows smart phones.

Agree, and I would actually gladly exchange my Android devices by WP ones, given the developer experience. I really don't get where do all those PhDs at Google work, surely not on Android dev tools.

But Microsoft might still win the space of productive tablets, as I am yet to find one as good as the Surface.

And what about the HoloLens?

According to [1] the HoloLens chip continues to be supported.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063672/windows/the-death-of-...

All I can see is "Microsoft uses a Cherry Trail chip inside of the HoloLens, but it's unclear whether or not that will be affected."

Sorry, I read

> "The company said it will continue to support tablets with a 3G derivative of the SoFIA chip, the older Bay Trail and Cherry Trail, as well as some upcoming Core chips."

that it will be supported, but reading this source again this indeed doesn't make it clear whether that's actually the chip used in HoloLens. I'm sure they will find a solution, but it will be a shame if HoloLens gets much worse battery life because of this...