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The Surface Duo is dead — Microsoft pulls plug on $1,500 Surface Duo 2 after just one Android OS upgrade
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They supported it with security for as long as they said they would. Microsoft sold an estimated 50k of them and killed the product line. They shouldn't be required to invest further in Android upgrades on a device that barely deserved to exist to begin with.