This would prevent the installation of executable files which would eventually slow down the PC in a long term. While it wasn’t necessarily a lighter version of Windows 10, it tried to be that lighter version by disabling the ability to download apps from outside the Microsoft Store.

Microsoft’s answer to this was Windows 10 S. This made ChromeOS very popular in the education segment. ChromeOS works well with budget devices with poor specifications. The need for an actual stripped down version of Windows 10 is quite high, especially for low-cost Windows 10 devices. Now, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 Mobile will no longer be available in any new hardware which makes the OS dead. Also, things didn’t turn out as expected and Microsoft had to move Windows 10 Mobile to the feature2 branch which focussed only on bug fixes and under the hood improvements. But Windows 10 Mobile was never a stripped-down version of Windows 10.

Windows 10 Mobile seemed to be a stripped-down version of Windows 10 since they shared the same kernel, UI components, settings and they even shared the same UWP app platform.

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