Paul Thurrott has a new article up attempting to interpret the MS WP10 eventual rollout....how it will work and who gets it and who doesn't
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/wind...ile-for-phones
Some items of interest/clarification from the article...(PaulT's interpretation)
- There is no upgrade path from Windows Phone 8.0. If you’re Windows Phone 8(.0) handset was never upgraded to Windows Phone 8.1 or newer, you’re out of luck. You can’t get to Windows 10 Mobile.
- The upgrade process happens as it does now in Windows Phone, which is to say over the air, and using the familiar “grinding gears” UX will all know and love.
- You can’t downgrade. Unlike with desktop versions of Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile does not provide a way to “downgrade,” or go back to the previous Windows Phone OS version you were using...(Paul T speculates)although it
might be possible through the Software Recovery Tool.
- You can launch the upgrade from an SD card. You can simply download the Windows 10 Mobile upgrade to microSD and install it from there.
- (note: Paul T speculates) MS will use the Windows Insider Program to deliver “fast ring” updates early to insiders as part of Project Milkyway(on-going MS update process every 4-6 wks), and that normal users will only get them on the usual schedule, when carriers OK the updates.
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Comment:
So you have to have been upgraded to WP 8.1 before you can get WP10.
MS will throw the update to both the Insider Program and the Carriers. The Carriers will then test it and release it...(or not) as per their whim, as has the case with the current s/w release model. The only way it would seem that you are
certain to get WP10 is if you have a WP that is updated to 8.1....
and is from MS(read Lumias)....or you have a WP updated to 8.1
and 'fast ring' it through the Insider Program.
Well that's my best read on PaulT's article and thoughts on the WP10 eventual rollout. PaulT salts the article at the end with the comment:
"Experience has taught me not to get too excited when it comes to Windows Phone updates. And not to believe everything you read.". So I guess nothing is set in cement just quite yet....but at least there are some footprints of folks playing in the C-mud to guide us....sort of.
