Did Microsoft know Windows Phone 7 would be superceded prior to its launch?

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Not great news today from the Windows Phone camp. It would appear that CNET have been chatting with Greg Sullivan from Microsoft and what he has said isn't what Windows Phone users wanted to hear.

It seems that Microsoft has know for a long time that Windows Phone seven would be replaced by Windows Phone viii.

"It was right after Windows Phone vii," Sullivan said, speaking in an interview with CNET Britain. The team that developed the 7.5 release actually was working in parallel with the core team that was already beginning [Windows Phone viii]. In fact some of that work was already initiated before Windows Phone vii was even available -- so this goes dorsum a little bit."

"It is truthful that this is a generational shift -- that is a rare occurrence, but information technology'southward something we don't expect to have happen once more in the foreseeable hereafter because of the headspace that the new compages gives united states."

While I would imagine that the bulk of blogs that write about this volition but complain well-nigh Microsoft keeping us in the dark, I on the other mitt am looking at this realistically. How many operating systems are at that place that become a large software upgrade that will then piece of work on all older hardware? Every bit far every bit I can meet there is just one that seems to accept nailed it and that is iOS. While Android tries to update as many devices from the past 18 months or then they are quite often at the mercy of the carriers and manufacturers. At least Apple seem to have a good rails record of keeping older hardware up to engagement. RIM has been guilty of the same. Many Os 5.0 handsets were not upgradable to BlackBerry 6 and none of those were ever going to see BlackBerry 7.

What I am getting at here is that this is just the way the mobile industry works. Certain, if you have bought a Windows Phone in the last 6 months or so it may take been nice to know an update was coming and the hardware would non be uniform. Simply that is never going to happen as manufactures need to sell phones.

At least it is encouraging to know that we shouldn't see this scenario once again for some time with Windows Phone.

The whole affair isn't ideal but platonic but that'south how the business seems to piece of work.

Source: CNET

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