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Waiting for the Windows Phone release.

(crickets)

(Dammit, even the 'MS Studios' games get pointless ads. Class act there.)

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Microsoft Solitaire Collection has been available on Windows Phone for quite a long time. Actually many of their casual games are available as universal apps on Windows 10 desktop/mobile.

Runs very well on my Lumia 950 XL

Had genuinely blocked it out, my memory being merciful to me.

Tried it a couple of years ago, and it was terrible - bad interface and heated up the phone like it was an FPS. Deleted and got Bernardo Zamora's Solitaire, which is much nicer.

> Lumia 950 XL

The one great game I found labeled MS Studios was Shuffle Party, a very nice shuffleboard/bowling simulator that runs 3D animations without heating up the phone and draining the battery.

(Also signed 'Babaroga', probably some competent Russians saving the day ;-)

Windows Phone is a burning platform at this point, Microsoft canned most of the people working on it and left a few dozen interns working on it, hence why the Windows 10 images for the Lumia as of late have been very unstable.

Sadly, its time to migrate off Windows Phone.

I'm very sad about it, too. The Metro Design line was a good mobile platform that's being gradually degraded and left to rot.

I have trouble believing that a 90%-10% duopoly in mobile platforms is an healthy steady state for this market.

Probably something else - not as good - will come in and occupy the vacuum.

I mean, if I could just get a nice Maemo Phone I'd be happy, like throw that on a Lumia 920 and I'd be content. There is definitely room for innovation in the mobile space, and both MS and Nokia have the hardware side of it down, they just need to choose a platform that people can get behind and make it easy to move to it (eg. have a preinstalled app compatibility layer).

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