After reading this article from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows, I'm depressed.
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/networking/time-running-out-windows-phone-143020
Here's a few paragraphs from the article,
"I?m as concerned, in a way, with what is very clearly yet another do-over. Yes, Windows Phone 8 will retain the Windows Phone name, and yes, it will run ?legacy? Windows Phone 7.x apps, those apps that were written in Silverlight or the game-centric XNA APIs. But with Silverlight and XNA both silently cancelled deep within Microsoft?s ever-reimagined corporate hulk, the move to a variation of WinRT means that Windows Phone is starting over again. That mean more work for developers who, let?s face it, haven?t really had much incentive to adopt this platform in the first place.
"It also means that the underlying platform, now a Windows Phone-specific version of WinRT, is less mature. The Windows Phone APIs were certainly lacking when the platform debuted in 2010, but the undermanned and underappreciated team responsible for it has done a wonderful job of updating the platform and the APIs over the past two years, all while providing a steady supply of excellent documentation. Say what you will about Windows Phone, but the developer environment was always first-rate. And now it?s changing...."
"....Of course, the move to yet another platform goes well beyond developers, and there's good and bad news for users and those IT pros who need to support Windows Phone in the real world. For users, it?s bad: I?ve been told that absolutely no current Windows Phone handsets will be upgraded to Windows Phone 8, although some still hold out for a fantasy future in which Microsoft, the hardware makers, and the ever-reluctant wireless carriers miraculously toss logic to the wind and support some tiny number of upgraders with at least a subset of Windows Phone 8 functionality."
He concludes his article with
"Meanwhile, those who've used Windows Phone know that Microsoft created something special here. But with so much uncertainty around the platform, it?s no wonder that even the software giant?s biggest fans are starting to wonder whether Windows Phone has a future. I?d like to see it succeed. Heck, it deserves to succeed. But the question remains.
Is time running out for Windows Phone?"
I really hoped my Lumia 800 would be upgraded to Apollo. Now I'm depressed, not just about no update, but about the future of WP7/WP8 altogether
What are everyone's thoughts on this?
http://www.winsupersite.com/article/networking/time-running-out-windows-phone-143020
Here's a few paragraphs from the article,
"I?m as concerned, in a way, with what is very clearly yet another do-over. Yes, Windows Phone 8 will retain the Windows Phone name, and yes, it will run ?legacy? Windows Phone 7.x apps, those apps that were written in Silverlight or the game-centric XNA APIs. But with Silverlight and XNA both silently cancelled deep within Microsoft?s ever-reimagined corporate hulk, the move to a variation of WinRT means that Windows Phone is starting over again. That mean more work for developers who, let?s face it, haven?t really had much incentive to adopt this platform in the first place.
"It also means that the underlying platform, now a Windows Phone-specific version of WinRT, is less mature. The Windows Phone APIs were certainly lacking when the platform debuted in 2010, but the undermanned and underappreciated team responsible for it has done a wonderful job of updating the platform and the APIs over the past two years, all while providing a steady supply of excellent documentation. Say what you will about Windows Phone, but the developer environment was always first-rate. And now it?s changing...."
"....Of course, the move to yet another platform goes well beyond developers, and there's good and bad news for users and those IT pros who need to support Windows Phone in the real world. For users, it?s bad: I?ve been told that absolutely no current Windows Phone handsets will be upgraded to Windows Phone 8, although some still hold out for a fantasy future in which Microsoft, the hardware makers, and the ever-reluctant wireless carriers miraculously toss logic to the wind and support some tiny number of upgraders with at least a subset of Windows Phone 8 functionality."
He concludes his article with
"Meanwhile, those who've used Windows Phone know that Microsoft created something special here. But with so much uncertainty around the platform, it?s no wonder that even the software giant?s biggest fans are starting to wonder whether Windows Phone has a future. I?d like to see it succeed. Heck, it deserves to succeed. But the question remains.
Is time running out for Windows Phone?"
I really hoped my Lumia 800 would be upgraded to Apollo. Now I'm depressed, not just about no update, but about the future of WP7/WP8 altogether
What are everyone's thoughts on this?
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