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Windows Phone 7 Update Jams Some Phones

Posted by timothy on from the bit-of-an-oopsie-there dept.

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.'"

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  1. Another Microsoft Product success by hsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Should have been renamed Windows Mobile Vista

    1. Re:Another Microsoft Product success by Rufty · · Score: 4, Funny

      Naah. Windows Mobile Edition. Or Windows ME to its friend.

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  2. Re:NOK is in trouble. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the user experience with Windows Phone 7?

    Seriously?

    Nokia's in serious serious shit.

    I hope that Nokia can help iron out problems like this before they launch WP7 devices.

    What did people expect? Microsoft's been promising that WP7 would "bring the Windows experience" to your phone; I can't think of a more quintessentially "Windows experience" than getting completely fucked by a random update.

  3. Re:It never ceases to amaze me by clang_jangle · · Score: 3, Funny

    I administer around 50 Windows computers and never have updates break anything.

    Congrats on the new job! After you've been doing it for a few years you too will have windows update horror stories to tell.

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