Prior to the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft made a lot of noises about things like updates that sounded to many like guarantees. Noises such as Microsoft would be handling the updates and not carriers, and that users would be getting a regular drip feed of updates and improvements. How times change when a product is released.
So, two months following launch, Microsoft pulls the plug on its Kin platform (can’t call it a smartphone … phone maybe, or dumbphone … suggestions please). The handset was aimed at tweens and teenagers, but was pricey and came shackled to a painfully expensive contract.
Apparently, the blowback Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) got from Windows 8 RT OEMs for intending to directly compete with them in the tablet market with Surface wasn’t gutsy enough to impress the Redmond juggernaut, which, according to published reports, may be back at it with a Windows Phone 8 smartphone.
In a blog post earlier this week, Windows Phone Central (WPCentral, as referenced here), based on
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) appears headed for two big October splashes, first with its slated Oct. 26 Windows 8 and Surface RT debuts, and, according to the latest reports, a second extravaganza three days later for Windows Phone 8, perhaps in San Francisco or Los Angeles.
When asked to confirm, Microsoft declined to comment, but the company didn’t deny it, either.
Can Microsoft make a dent in the smartphone market by appealing to the mobile-worker?
With a focus on drawing together work and play, communications and entertainment and trying to help users avoid the distractions of complexity while using their smartphone, Microsoft unveiled its latest mobile OS, Windows Phone 7.
Microsoft Windows users running XP, Vista or Windows 7 will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99 when the new operating software becomes available, a date that has yet to be officially announced but which most observers and insiders believe will be sometime in October.
Of the two versions of Windows 8 Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to ship, Windows 8 Pro is more feature-rich and eventual
It’s Surfaced again: the rumour that Microsoft is developing its own smartphone hardware in a bid to drive wider adoption of its Windows Phone OS. Ever since Microsoft distressed its desktop Windows OEMs by unveiling its own-brand tablet PC, called Surface, the logical leap required to imagine an own-brand Windows Phone has apparently been shrinking.
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