While the lack of developer support killed it for good, its desktop-esque Continuum feature let Windows Phone owners run a limited selection of full-blown Windows apps on an external display. Today’s smartphones play nice with monitors too but Microsoft had bolder ambitions: true Windows on a smartphone. Windows on ARM looked like a move in said direction, despite its iffy x64 emulation support.
Modders have been trying to port Windows to smartphones for years with varying degrees of success.
Getting around the firmware of existing devices and the hassle of device-specific drivers are challenges that sound next to impossible. But the developers over at The Renegade Project deliver on that very promise.
The Renegade Project brings Windows 11 to a small but growing list of smartphones.