Eager Windows Phone adopters with WinPho 7 devices will be out of luck when WinPho 8 rolls out. Existing phones won’t be upgradable to the upcoming operating system. Microsoft will throw a sop to WinPho 7 device owners by issuing an update, WinPho 7.8. It will include some user interface features from Windows Phone 8, but it won’t be nearly as deep or fundamental a change. “Everybody faces this problem — hardware capabilities are going through massive changes and new operating systems won’t work on the older devices,” Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
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WinPho 8 Update Gap: Microsoft's Got Some 'Splaining to Do
Posted by: Richard Adhikari June 22, 2012 05:00 AMEager Windows Phone adopters with WinPho 7 devices will be out of luck when WinPho 8 rolls out. Existing phones won’t be upgradable to the upcoming operating system. Microsoft will throw a sop to WinPho 7 device owners by issuing an update, WinPho 7.8. It will include some user interface features from Windows Phone 8, but it won’t be nearly as deep or fundamental a change. “Everybody faces this problem — hardware capabilities are going through massive changes and new operating systems won’t work on the older devices,” Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.