Microsoft News: Windows Phone Ending Support For Angry Birds?

Microsoft will sadly say "bye-bye" to Rovio soon. Finnish game maker has confirmed it will no longer be developing game apps like "Angry Birds" for the Windows Phone platform owned by Microsoft in a bid to streamline its services and focusing on the more dominant iOS and Android operating system.

According to Tech Radar, since Microsoft still has not released any response to the development, users will still be able to play the titles including Angry Birds Epic, Angry Birds Go, Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars.

"Rovio games are also no longer developed on Windows Phones," the email about the Microsoft platform pull out read. "The only devices that are still supported and updated are Android and OS devices. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If there is anything else we could help you with please, do not hesitate to contact us again."

In other news, a group of users of Microsoft's Windows Phone are lobbying to get the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go in the platform, the Register UK reported. The users have created a Change.org petition urging Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, Niantic and its developers to have Pokemon Go released on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. As of press time, forty thousand people have signed the petition.

Even if Microsoft is one of the biggest tech companies in the world, it is not the first time that Rovio and other tech developers passed over Windows Phone for its application offerings. This is partly due to the dominance of Android and iOS in the mobile OS war market share with 65.58 percent and 27.24 percent respectively. It took two years before Angry Birds became available to Windows Phone users, too late when compared to those using Android, Symbian and iOS. Flappy Bird by Vietnam-based develop Dong Nguyen also did not became available to Windows.