July 2013 Update / GDR3 (or whatever it will be called) Info

[AngryNil]

Stop complaining about the speed of the Toyota Prius and buy a faster car.
Stop complaining about the features of Windows Phone and buy a different phone.

You are implying that we are complaining about features that are fundamentally misaligned with Windows Phone. So let us see what we can find out of a list I have curated below that Windows Phone is opposed to at a basic level:

• Landscape
• Printing
• Data usage
• Storage
• Orientation lock
• Custom alert and alarm sounds
• Backing up app data
• Calendar week view
• Connectivity toggles
• VPN
• More Bluetooth profiles
• Outlook.com aliases
• Text reflow
• Gesture typing
• Scrubbing
• Gapless audio
• Playlist management
• Xbox Video
• Background downloading
• Toast notification aggregation
• Predictive dial
• Wave voicemails
• Universal search
• Custom alerts and alarms
• WiFi sync
• Natural language

Come on, man. I get that Microsoft can't implement 1001 noteworthy features in any short amount of time, but there are real suggestions that would make the platform better, and the company seems to be picking less than a handful of the minor ones each update. I'll wait until GDR3 and Blue before I pass any kind of final judgement, but it's been a rather poor showing so far.

 

[Rich White]

Windows 8 is a 3 year roll out with 8.1. 8.2 and 8.3 coming down the road.

As near as I can tell GDR3 will be the critical path items to allow the new "Holiday Hardware" releases to scale and handle 1080P and larger screens. Blue in Q1 2014 will be more feature oriented concentrating on ergonomics and services. Under the hood the API will expand to move closer to "one OS to rule them all"

 

[fardream]

You are implying that we are complaining about features that are fundamentally misaligned with Windows Phone. So let us see what we can find out of a list I have curated below that Windows Phone is opposed to at a basic level:

• Landscape
• Printing
• Data usage
• Storage
• Orientation lock
• Custom alert and alarm sounds
• Backing up app data
• Calendar week view
• Connectivity toggles
• VPN
• More Bluetooth profiles
• Outlook.com aliases
• Text reflow
• Gesture typing
• Scrubbing
• Gapless audio
• Playlist management
• Xbox Video
• Background downloading
• Toast notification aggregation
• Predictive dial
• Wave voicemails
• Universal search
• Custom alerts and alarms
• WiFi sync
• Natural language

Come on, man. I get that Microsoft can't implement 1001 noteworthy features in any short amount of time, but there are real suggestions that would make the platform better, and the company seems to be picking less than a handful of the minor ones each update. I'll wait until GDR3 and Blue before I pass any kind of final judgement, but it's been a rather poor showing so far.

May i also add
Xbox music cloud sync (advertised feature)
Skype best on mobile (promised back in June)
Secure storage card support for EAS

and

Update weather app for windows phone 8

 

[Maserati Storm]

what they need to do is fix bloody internet explorer! its slow and some forms dont work!

 

[HeyCori]

This is the third time a moderator has had to clean this thread. It's done.