[benlower]

Wow the comment thread on the original MSFT blog post (direct link: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/...) is just painful. It's mostly a collection of people who use Windows on their phone crying out about the lack of support for Windows.

Microsoft won't support their own platform (phone) with this. If that's the case then why would any other developer write apps for Windows? Also, I thought the big push was for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that ran on mobile, desktop/tablet, and Xbox. I can understand that you may not want to write a custom app for a platform with tiny market share but "big" Windows still has a lot of share.

This is a great example of how to erode trust.

[enzanki_ars]

"A few people have asked if this works with Windows Phone version Microsoft Authenticator. Windows Phone makes up <5% of the active users of our Authenticator Apps so we have prioritized getting this working with iOS and Android for now. If/When it becomes a big success on those high scale platforms, we will evaluate adding support for Windows Phone." [1] - Reasons never to buy a Windows Phone #387.

[1]: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/...

[marcosdumay]

> If that's the case then why would any other developer write apps for Windows?

Why would any other developer write apps for windows if that were not the case either?

I'd bet that, if there's any answer for that, it will be a perfectly valid answer for your question too.