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 first 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. Although the market share of this operating system is limited, there is certainly a case for optimism based on the following reasons:
The computer operating system market is still dominated by Windows. This gives Windows Phone OS greater flexibility to provide users with a computer environment that they are familiar with.
Windows Phones are the most affordable smartphone on the market.
The following sections will provide more detail about Windows Phone 8 and 8.1, its features, and its underlying security model. We believe that data is...