![]() In July, the firm tried to deny these troubles, but starting last month it could no longer hide the issues, and it started laying off staff and consolidating. As it turns out, Cyanogen has been in trouble financially pretty much forever. And who knows? Microsoft might have even taken that and made its own Android OS, replacing Windows Mobile.īut that isn’t going to happen. If this had been successful, Microsoft might have had an interesting alternative future in which this free and open Android OS, called Cyanogenmod, formed the basis of a new way forward. In September 2015, it even announced it would add Cortana. So why do we care about that here? Because Cyanogen was once part of Microsoft’s mobile strategy: In April 2015, the software giant announced that it was partnering with Cyanogen to integrate Microsoft apps and services across its open Android OS. That is, they forked the free version of Android and created an offshoot of that OS which was completely free, unlike the version Google sells to device makers. “As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16,” Cyanogen announced Friday evening.Ĭyanogen was once seen as a major alternative to Google in the Android space. The firm was once seen as a potential inroad for Microsoft in mobile. Cyanogen announced over the holiday weekend that it is shutting down.
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