Staying on the platform is pretty difficult when there are no new phones to buy.<p>Microsoft&#x27;s new Lumia models are all basically &quot;last year&#x27;s $120 model, now for $100&quot;. Which is fine if you&#x27;re in the precise market for a $100 phone, but then you also have lots of options from cheapo Android vendors... Windows Phone has long enjoyed a performance advantage on the low end, but that gap is closing. Meanwhile even the low-end market has come to demand a full range of 3rd party software, so Windows is losing there too.<p>For high-end consumers, Microsoft doesn&#x27;t have anything. The Lumia 950 is barely ok, but won&#x27;t stop the bleeding.<p>My last Lumia was a 1520 which I bought two years ago. It&#x27;s nearly equivalent to the brand new 950XL -- and my old phone has a nicer design. (How did Microsoft mess that up? Don&#x27;t they understand that when their fans have waited two years for a flagship phone, it needs to look attractive?)<p>So I&#x27;m probably not getting another Windows phone ever again. The effort of returning to the platform would be too great at this point. (I had three different WP7&#x2F;8 phones over the years, so I was fairly committed to it.)