Windows Phone 7 Update Jams Some Phones

CWmike writes "Microsoft's first Windows Phone 7 update is apparently causing some users' phones to not work. Microsoft has advised at least one person to take his device into a store for a fix. The company's WindowsPhoneSupport Twitter account shows the responses to a variety of queries from users who have experienced problems over the last half-day. Microsoft released the update on Monday but played it down. The update was designed only 'to improve the software update process itself,' wrote Michael Stroh on the Windows Team Blog. One user, Alex Roebuck, wrote on Twitter that the update had bricked his Samsung Omnia 7. 'We're very sorry for the inconvenience,' Microsoft responded on Twitter. 'For this issue we would suggest taking it to a store.'"

Comments

Holy Anti-Microsoft Hysteria, Batman!

[the linux geek]

Okay, so a small (
-Almost nonfunctional GPS an all devices
-Serious filesystem issues that cause the phone to get substantially slower when time goes by, due to the fact that they were running on an obscure FAT derivative (RFS)
-No OS updates for months. 2.2 has just been coming out in the past few weeks for Galaxy S, while 2.3 and 2.3.3 (two API levels ahead) are out.

Just trying to put things in perspective. Now, back to your regularly scheduled Microsoft bitching...