Windows Phone is a proprietary mobile operating system developed by Microsoft. It was launched as a successor to Windows Mobile, but it does not provide backward compatibility with the previous platform. Windows Phone was launched in October 2010 with Windows Phone 7. The version history of the Windows Phone operating system then continued with the release of Windows Phone 7.5, Windows Phone 7.8, Windows Phone 8.1, and Windows Phone 10.
Despite the fact that Microsoft claim they have stopped developing this mobile operating system, excluding security patches, you are likely to face it as a mobile forensic examiner.
The following sections will provide more details about Windows Phone, its features, and its underlying security model.
Unlike Android and iOS devices, Windows Phone comes with a new interface, which uses so-called tiles for apps instead of icons, as shown in the following figure. These tiles can be designed and updated by the user:
The Windows Phone home screen
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