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Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone?

Posted by samzenpus on from the red-headed-step-child dept.

symbolset writes "Microsoft has had some trouble as of late getting adoption of their mobile products. Even Bill Gates has said it was inadequate. Despite rave reviews of Windows Phone in the press it has failed to get double digit share of the smartphone market. Now comes reports from WMPoweruser that WP8 will lose mainstream support in July 2014."

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  1. Er, that likely means they'll be on WP9 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Er, that likely means they'll be on WP9. How long will Google update Android 3.x or even 4.0?

    Trololol samzenpuss, trololol.

    1. Re:Er, that likely means they'll be on WP9 by kelemvor4 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Er, that likely means they'll be on WP9. How long will Google update Android 3.x or even 4.0?

      Trololol samzenpuss, trololol.

      Especially since MS has come out and said that all wp8 devices will be upgradable to wp9. It even says as much on TFA linked in TFS. Way to deliberately mislead readers, samzenpus. There's a career in politics somewhere out there for you.

  2. RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    This posting looks like FUD, if you read the article it says.
    All window 8 phone devices will get new version of OS, which will have a 18 month support window.

  3. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHA by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Informative

    No you deserve -42 for believing a /. headline about Microsoft. The article says the following at the bottom, "On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system."

  4. Re:Headline title is sensational by Moggyboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I agree the headline title is sensational, but have you forgotten what "moving on to the next version of the OS" meant for us idiots who bought WP7 phones? Or for those of us who spent a couple of years skilling up in Silverlight? After the treatment we have been given over the last five years, I for one will not be buying another Microsoft product any time soon, and I would certainly not trust any assurance that WP8 phone owners will receive the next major version of the operating system. Will that new version retain your music collection? Your preferences? Your apps? Will the apps you've written still work? Who knows?!?

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  5. Bullshit story and another Slashdot low by mystikkman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wow, I didn't think Slashdot could go lower but it just managed to do that.

    Next headline: MS to abandon Windows, because Windows XP support Ends April 8, 2014?

    Microsoft will make Windows Phone 9, in fact they even have people working on testing it.

    http://msftkitchen.com/windows-phone-9-testing-begins-also-windows-9-gets-a-mention-from-microsoft

    And Windows Phone 8 phones will be upgradeable.

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416002,00.asp

    And Windows Phone is growing marketshare:

    http://wmpoweruser.com/italy-shows-their-windows-phone-strength-already-15-of-windows-phone-market/
    http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-has-a-16-3-market-share-in-poland-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world/
    http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/analyst-windows-phone-sees-strong-growth-uk-and-italy/2013-01-23
    http://www.wpcentral.com/long-queues-china-nokia-lumia-920-sells-out-two-hours [And yes, that's actually picture of people queuing for Windows Phone)

    And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.

    The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.

    Reminds me of this story http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7

    Even the mainstream tech media noticed that. Interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/

    I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease

    This place was always anti-MS but reasonable and informative comments used to get modded up a few years ago, not anymore.There are enough things to bash Microsoft with, why make up lies and spread FUD?

    Of course, the real blame is on moderators for modding up these kind of posts and marking others rebutting replies to them as troll and flamebait.

    Last one out, switch off lights.

    1. Re:Bullshit story and another Slashdot low by recoiledsnake · · Score: 5, Informative

      They changed the kernel in WP7 from WinCE to the WinNT kernel(the same lineage as in Windows 7/8) in WP8, which is a pretty big changes and left the old OEM hardware drivers of WP7 incompatible with WP8. Since the next WP version will be using the same kernel, it's not hard to imagine WP9 working on WP8 devices.

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  6. Pure FUD and Slashdot bias... by David_Hart · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft has already stated that they are moving towards a faster update cycle for all of their software products. All this means is that there will be no new OS updates for WP8.0 after July 2014. They will have 8.5 or 9.0 out before that date.

    BTW, Google has the EXACT same upgrade/support cycle for each version of Android (18 months).

    I expect more than this from the Slashdot editors!!! After all, they are supposed to at least understand the tech industry which includes software update/support cycles.....

  7. Bullshit story and a Slashdot low by mystikkman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wow, I didn't think Slashdot could go lower but it just managed to do that.

    Next headline: MS to abandon Windows, because Windows XP support Ends April 8, 2014?

    Microsoft will make Windows Phone 9, in fact they even have people working on testing it.

    http://msftkitchen.com/windows-phone-9-testing-begins-also-windows-9-gets-a-mention-from-microsoft

    And Windows Phone 8 phones will be upgradeable.

    http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416002,00.asp

    And Windows Phone is growing marketshare:

    http://wmpoweruser.com/italy-shows-their-windows-phone-strength-already-15-of-windows-phone-market/
    http://wmpoweruser.com/windows-phone-has-a-16-3-market-share-in-poland-one-of-the-highest-in-the-world/
    http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/analyst-windows-phone-sees-strong-growth-uk-and-italy/2013-01-23
    http://www.wpcentral.com/long-queues-china-nokia-lumia-920-sells-out-two-hours [And yes, that's actually picture of people queuing for Windows Phone)

    Picking up some loyal users who seem to like it :
    http://wmpoweruser.com/pcmag-readers-choice-awards-2013-windows-phone-wins-mobile-os-category/
    http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/01/customer-satisfaction-of-windows-phone-on-the-rise-according-to-survey/

    And winning some awards
    http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-lumia-920-struts-its-stuff-and-takes-prestigious-innovative-handset-award-2013
    http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-wins-engadget-smartphone-of-2012-user-vote/

    And yet we have this bullshit FUD summary, headline and article? No wonder Slashdot is losing readership fast, with barely a few comments for stories compared to earlier.

    The partyline biased moderation, calling people with alternate viewpoints shills and chasing them away into karma hell can only last so long before the echo chamber gets tired of listening to itself and packs it up.

    Reminds me of this story http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/02/16/2259257/draconian-drm-revealed-in-windows-7

    Even the mainstream tech media noticed that. Interesting read: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/02/oh-the-humanity-windows-7s-draconian-drm/

    I doubt any one would care now, with most people having written off Slashdot as the hiding place of anti-Microsoft trolls and zealots living in their alternate reality. Posters like bmo, symbolset, tuple666, Zero__Kelvin, LordLimeCat, Jeremiah Cornelius, UnknowingFool, rtfa-troll, binarylarry, MightyMartian, drinkypoo, pieroxy and a whole bunch of others have ruined Slashdot beyond repair and seem to suffer from this affliction: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/07/25/1757253/linus-calls-microsoft-hatred-a-disease