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Microsoft Aims To Offer Windows 10 Upgrades For All Windows Phone 8 Lumias

Posted by timothy on from the number-by-any-other-number dept.

An anonymous reader writes News suggesting that Microsoft plans to offer Windows 10 upgrades for all its Windows Phone 8 devices broke today. "It's our intention to enable a Windows 10 upgrade for Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones," a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat. "At this early stage in the development process, and given the vast portfolio of Windows devices worldwide, we can't predict that all devices will be upgradeable, but it is our intention that the Lumia smartphone line be upgradeable to Windows 10."

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  1. terrible summary + not news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first line has garden path construction that first parses as " ... Windows Phone 8 devices broke today."

    Next, the summary doesn't include the word "free." If the offer isn't free, then it's just "Microsoft plans to offer try to sell a new product to its existing customers."
    Actually after clicking through to the original article, I think this is the case. Basically I think Microsoft is saying "we hope to make it possible to sell Windows 10 to Windows 8 users, but the old hardware might prevent us from doing that."

    This isn't news. At best, this is just press spin. At worst, it's just part of the Windows 10 advertising campaign.