Operating Systems

Desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems that reached end of life.

11 projects

Windows CE Microsoft's small Windows for handhelds, set-top boxes and cash registers, alive from Comdex 1996 to a quiet end of support in 2023 1996–2023 Operating Systems Windows RT Windows for ARM tablets that could not run Windows programs 2012–2023 Operating Systems BlackBerry OS The keyboard that ran the world 1999–2022 Operating Systems BlackBerry 10 The reboot that arrived in 2013 and was switched off in 2022 2013–2022 Operating Systems Windows Phone The tiles nobody wrote apps for 2010–2019 Operating Systems Firefox OS The web as an operating system, aimed at $25 phones 2013–2016 Operating Systems Symbian Ran most of the world's smartphones, then burned with the platform 1998–2014 Operating Systems MeeGo Nokia and Intel's Linux phone, abandoned the year its best device shipped 2010–2012 Operating Systems Windows Mobile A tiny Windows with a Start button, reset to zero by its own maker 2000–2012 Operating Systems Maemo Nokia's Linux for internet tablets and the N900, folded into MeeGo 2005–2010 Operating Systems Palm OS The organiser in your pocket that taught phones to be computers 1996–2009 Operating Systems