uopjo6
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When you think Storage = money, I feel im being robbed with the Other Storage taking more than 5GB of space and MS not addressing this problem for 5 months.
Its not about how many updates we get , its about how soon are they going to add the plethora of basic things missing.
If they don't get this voice mail message as email attachment .wav file issue squared away they will be once again shooting themselves in the foot. I cannot play attached voice mails on my WP, which are generated as .wav files by our new Shoretel system, while everyone at my firm with an iPhone or Android can. The single biggest impediment to others switching to WP at my firm.
There has been a few articles going around saying that MS is trying to include WP Blue with GDR3. I really, really, really hope so. MS needs some fire under their butts.
I could not agree with this more!!! Microsoft needs to take the middle man out of it and push updates straight to the consumers. That would solve a lot of headaches on all endsMS needs to get the carriers out of the way like Apple has done. The carriers only interest is selling new devices on contracts. They have ZERO interest in allowing device updates. MS needs to push some of it's weight around and gang up on the carriers WITH Apple. This whole situation is a massive load of crap.
I could not agree with this more!!! Microsoft needs to take the middle man out of it and push updates straight to the consumers. That would solve a lot of headaches on all ends
I could not agree with this more!!! Microsoft needs to take the middle man out of it and push updates straight to the consumers. That would solve a lot of headaches on all ends
I do not see why it is an issue. They have the infrastructure in place to do this already. Just point the damn things at windows update.
It's a political and a legal issue. It isn't a technical issue.
Until recently, all WP updates were delivered to all users directly from Microsoft's servers. They already had functionality similar to "Windows Update in place for WP:
1. MS releases an update to the OEM
2. OEM installs update on their devices, tests it and then sends it to carriers for additional testing
3. Carriers sign off on the update and give MS the permission to distribute the update on their network
4. MS flips a switch which starts the OS update rollout (for a specific device and for a specific carrier)
It has always been that way since WP7. Since GDR2 some things have changed however, so I don't know exactly what the situation is now. From what I understand MS is loosing even more flexibility. :-(
The way I understand it this is pretty much how Apple rolls out updates. They of course don't have the OEMs to go through, but the update does go to the carriers with a strict timeline of when to have it approved. Google is working on reducing fragmentation of Android with Nexus and Google Editions of other OEM devices, but so far they've barely scratched the surface. It's interesting that Microsoft seems to be moving away from this update method.
I don't think 'interesting' is the word I would have used. Tragic seems more fitting :-/
For WP there are no update timelines. For WP there is no alternative to OTA updates, so ever since WP8, carriers are in full control of the update process (giant step backward from WP7). For WP carriers have no obligation to even test an update, much less distribute it if they don't want to.
I don't have GDR2/Amber but Datasense is already on my phone.
How does that happen?