“Because of all that work for Windows 10 and the work we previously did to support Windows 10X, Windows 11 was a natural path forward, and really didn’t take much to get going.” “I wouldn’t say we were quite fast to do it, we took four years to get to the current state, but it’s actually impressive we got here with not much documentation on hand,” says Monce.
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The team has ported and reverse-engineered drivers to get Windows 11 running on a Windows Phone and even written their own ones, too. “We’re now basically a team of about 15 people, and we’ve made a lot of progress.” Windows 11 can still run on a Windows Phone from five years ago.
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“As time went on and we started talking about it, discussion groups formed and in turn we had a community of people interested in running full Windows 10 on Lumia 950s,” explains Monce. Monce teamed up with Bingxing Wang, a fellow engineer, to bring the idea of running full Windows on these phones to life. “It all started really 5 years ago, when Windows 10 Mobile was near obsolescence,” says Monce, speaking to The Verge.
This is the latest achievement in a five-year hobby of tinkering with getting full versions of Windows running on Windows Phone devices. While Windows 11 is usable on the Lumia 950 XL, it doesn’t look like something you’d want to pull out of your pocket every day. Windows 11 adapts surprisingly well for the 5.7-inch display, but the same can’t be said for the speed of animations. It was also one of Microsoft’s last Windows-powered phones before the company ended support for its mobile OS. Engineering student Gustave Monce has created a brief video demonstrating Windows 11 running on a Lumia 950 XL, one of the first devices to ship with Windows 10 Mobile. The Windows 11 preview only got released earlier this week, but a student has already managed to get Microsoft’s latest operating system running on a Windows Phone.
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