Microsoft is rethinking its mobile strategy in a fashion that will work better on the long-term, and also, since its phone platform bit the dust, the company can also be changing the main focus of countless projects.

One of these is Office Mobile for Windows 10, some apps that allowed users to run the productivity suite on devices like Windows 10 Mobile phones.

Launched as UWP apps, Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 also supported tablets powered by Microsoft's operating-system.

However, because of the current state of Windows phones and also the existing adoption of Windows 10 on tablets, Microsoft is likely to give up on Office Mobile, choosing instead to concentrate on Android and iOS versions of the productivity suite.

"OneNote UWP to survive"

The loss isn't as dramatic because it sounds. Windows 10 Mobile has already been close to extinction, and also the platform only receives security updates in maintenance mode until it eventually goes dark completely in mid-2019. On PC, users who wish to run Office have the desktop version of the suite, which comes having a more complex feature package anyway.

Microsoft switching the main focus to Android and iOS isn't by any means surprising, especially because these two platforms have become the company's priority in terms of the mobile push.

The software giant makes it clear it wants its users to be able to access its services whatever the operating system and device they will use, and purchasing the Android and iOS ecosystem may be the only way to go given that Windows 10 Mobile is already dead.

The UWP version of Onenote will be the just one to outlive, as it'll be contained in the Office 2019 suite around the desktop. Onenote UWP replaces Onenote 2016 for that desktop, becoming the default offering in Office 2019 on Windows 10. Furthermore, Office 2019 is a Windows 10-exclusive product and no other form of Windows is supported.