GDR3 Impossible before 2014?

[fardream]

5 months to go, and GDR2 is not pushed out yet. Looking at the features they added in GDR2 (easier to select music, etc) with 6 months of time vs what is rumored for GDR3 (1080p support etc), I highly doubt MSFT can pull this off and deliver it in 5 months.

I will be super satisfied if they manage to include a timer. How miserable is that.

 

[ttsoldier]

GDR2 is supposed to be out by august.

GDR3 is supposed to be out by the end of the year.

 

[AngryNil]

If Microsoft can't ship GDR3 this year, then it has no business being in the mobile market. However, it almost certainly will. The WP team didn't spend up until now working solely on GDR2; remember the experimental Blue build that leaked?

 

[crash1989]

pretty miserable by your standards I say .

 

[a5cent]

5 months to go, and GDR2 is not pushed out yet. Looking at the features they added in GDR2 (easier to select music, etc) with 6 months of time vs what is rumored for GDR3 (1080p support etc), I highly doubt MSFT can pull this off and deliver it in 5 months.

It sounds like you might have a bit of a misconception to overcome. All these updates are developed along side each other, in parallel. Last October, the moment the final version of WP8 shipped to OEMs, the majority of the WP team immediately started work on WP8.1, while three separate and much smaller teams were formed to work on GDR1, GDR2 and GDR3 (although the scope of any update can and will slightly change during development, based on OEM and customer feedback).

Were they to do it sequentially, then they'd release at most one update per year.

 

[psudotechzealot]

No it isn't Impossible. I hope it come with a notification center.

 

[vish2801]

It will come out with NEW devices before holiday but can't be said same about EXISTING devices, they might get it in the end of the year or early 2014. Same will happen with Blue, as MS has said that those enterprise features will be bundled with new update in 1st half of 2014. I don't expect WP Blue before March.

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[tungha]

just a quick question, how do you know about their development process?

It sounds like you might have a bit of a misconception to overcome. All these updates are developed along side each other, in parallel. Last October, the moment the final version of WP8 shipped to OEMs, the majority of the WP team immediately started work on WP8.1, while three separate and much smaller teams were formed to work on GDR1, GDR2 and GDR3 (although the scope of any update can and will slightly change during development, based on OEM and customer feedback).

Were they to do it sequentially, then they'd release at most one update per year.

 

[a5cent]

just a quick question, how do you know about their development process?

Business associates that work at Microsoft. But TBH, you don't need any such contacts to know this. It's standard practice for software projects of this size and complexity running on this type of release schedule (multiple minor updates per annual major update). Android, iOS and a thousand other software projects are developed similarly.

 

[N_LaRUE]

How many threads are we going to get on GDR2 and GDR3? We haven't eve got GDR2 yet and already we're hearing moans about GDR3. We have no idea when they're being released and in all honesty does it really matter? The GDRs are nice but all that matters to me right now is WP8.1 as I see that as the defining moment for the OS. The GDRs are important (to me somethings should have been fixed quicker) but that's just the way MS does things.