MICROSOFT: ‘NOTHING HAS CHANGED’ ABOUT WINDOWS PHONE UPDATES
Panic! Only a couple of months after the successful concept recover of Microsoft‘s Mango update for Windows Phones, a new post has appeared in Microsoft‘s Windows Phone Blog detailing updated, er, refurbish strategies for Windows Phones starting forward. And whilst Microsoft’s changes have sent a number of users up in arms at the suspicion that their Windows Phones competence shortly face same fragmentation as their Android counterparts, new sum from Microsoft prove that’s not the case.
In fact, zero has unequivocally altered about Microsoft’s refurbish policies for Windows Phones.
The difficulty seems to branch around Microsoft ubiquitous physical education instructor Eric Hautala’s outline of final week’s Windows Phone refurbish #8107 and the routine by which phones will go on to be updated via the year. In his post on the Windows Phone Blog, Hautala writes:
“This week we proposed to make a new Windows Phone refurbish —8107—available to many Windows Phone customers. The update, accessible to all carriers that ask it, is part of our ongoing upkeep of Windows Phone.”
“In the months ahead, we’ll go on to send out firmware and upkeep updates as needed. These will be accessible opposite the globe—although not everyone will receive or require them. It depends on your country, carrier, and phone model,” he adds.
While that could receptive to advice similar to fragmentation is stirring for Windows Phones, the routine by which carriers and manufacturers motionless which updates they’ll concede sold inclination to enjoy, a follow-up talk with Microsoft comparison product physical education instructor Greg Sullivan by ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley suggested Microsoft’s loyal intentions.
“Nothing has altered in courtesy to how we work with carriers to broach Windows Phone updates to our customers,” Sullivan said.
According to Foley, Microsoft will go on to broach Windows Phone updates to carriers just as it has been delivering them. Any not as big updates carriers elect not to run with (for assorted reasons) will be rolled up in to the larger, concept Windows Phone updates. Crisis averted.
So what has changed? Due to the larger superiority of phones and carriers, Microsoft has selected to desert the “Where’s my Windows Phone Update” table, formerly hosted on Microsoft’s central Windows Phone site. The site was innate in the arise of Microsoft’s fragmented “NoDo” Windows Phone update around Mar and Apr of final year, and the association has inaugurated to no longer post the standing of teenager use updates starting forward.
It stays to be seen if Microsoft will go on to use the page for vital handling complement updates starting forward, of if Microsoft has indeed updated the “update” site in to small more than a memory.
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Panic! Only a couple of months after the successful concept recover of Microsoft‘s Mango update for Windows Phones, a new post has appeared in Microsoft‘s Windows Phone Blog detailing updated, er, refurbish strategies for Windows Phones starting forward. And whilst Microsoft’s changes have sent a number of users up in arms at the suspicion that their Windows Phones competence shortly face same fragmentation as their Android counterparts, new sum from Microsoft prove that’s not the case.
In fact, zero has unequivocally altered about Microsoft’s refurbish policies for Windows Phones.
The difficulty seems to branch around Microsoft ubiquitous physical education instructor Eric Hautala’s outline of final week’s Windows Phone refurbish #8107 and the routine by which phones will go on to be updated via the year. In his post on the Windows Phone Blog, Hautala writes:
“This week we proposed to make a new Windows Phone refurbish —8107—available to many Windows Phone customers. The update, accessible to all carriers that ask it, is part of our ongoing upkeep of Windows Phone.”
“In the months ahead, we’ll go on to send out firmware and upkeep updates as needed. These will be accessible opposite the globe—although not everyone will receive or require them. It depends on your country, carrier, and phone model,” he adds.
While that could receptive to advice similar to fragmentation is stirring for Windows Phones, the routine by which carriers and manufacturers motionless which updates they’ll concede sold inclination to enjoy, a follow-up talk with Microsoft comparison product physical education instructor Greg Sullivan by ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley suggested Microsoft’s loyal intentions.
“Nothing has altered in courtesy to how we work with carriers to broach Windows Phone updates to our customers,” Sullivan said.
According to Foley, Microsoft will go on to broach Windows Phone updates to carriers just as it has been delivering them. Any not as big updates carriers elect not to run with (for assorted reasons) will be rolled up in to the larger, concept Windows Phone updates. Crisis averted.
So what has changed? Due to the larger superiority of phones and carriers, Microsoft has selected to desert the “Where’s my Windows Phone Update” table, formerly hosted on Microsoft’s central Windows Phone site. The site was innate in the arise of Microsoft’s fragmented “NoDo” Windows Phone update around Mar and Apr of final year, and the association has inaugurated to no longer post the standing of teenager use updates starting forward.
It stays to be seen if Microsoft will go on to use the page for vital handling complement updates starting forward, of if Microsoft has indeed updated the “update” site in to small more than a memory.
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