The happiest daya for any geek are the days their stuff gets updated! 
One of the best feelings in the world is the one you get, when your phone tells you "A new update is ready for your device".
You download it, it installs for ages and finally it finishes, and you quickly punch in you PIN aaaaaaaaand nothing has changed, apparently...
Yesterday it happened to me when an update arrived for my Lumia 630, and it has happened many many times before.
After the initial rush of getting an update, I'm left with an empty feeling of getting nothing new, or at least nothing new that I am aware of.
I have been thinking about this for quite a while, and I would think that Microsoft would want their customers to be excited over their phone as much of the time as they can...
Why wouldn't it be in Microsofts interest to always tell the user what exactly their updates do?
It would undoubtedly make them much more happy, even if the update just provides a few "performance upgrades"... Tell us where the performance is supposed to be improved, tell us if the camera's startup time is now improved with 0.5%, tell us if the battery now lasts 10 minutes longer on average, tell us if word prediction is improved, or if IE-security have been improved - even if it's just a little.
Of course Microsoft knows what are improved in their updates, and compared to actually writing the code, a list of detailed release notes should be no problem at all...
Can anyone come up with a good reason for them NOT to do it?
One of the best feelings in the world is the one you get, when your phone tells you "A new update is ready for your device".
You download it, it installs for ages and finally it finishes, and you quickly punch in you PIN aaaaaaaaand nothing has changed, apparently...
Yesterday it happened to me when an update arrived for my Lumia 630, and it has happened many many times before.
After the initial rush of getting an update, I'm left with an empty feeling of getting nothing new, or at least nothing new that I am aware of.
I have been thinking about this for quite a while, and I would think that Microsoft would want their customers to be excited over their phone as much of the time as they can...
Why wouldn't it be in Microsofts interest to always tell the user what exactly their updates do?
It would undoubtedly make them much more happy, even if the update just provides a few "performance upgrades"... Tell us where the performance is supposed to be improved, tell us if the camera's startup time is now improved with 0.5%, tell us if the battery now lasts 10 minutes longer on average, tell us if word prediction is improved, or if IE-security have been improved - even if it's just a little.
Of course Microsoft knows what are improved in their updates, and compared to actually writing the code, a list of detailed release notes should be no problem at all...
Can anyone come up with a good reason for them NOT to do it?
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