Look out, Windows Phone 8 users – yes, both of you – here's ... Windows 10 Mobile For the past few months, peeps keen to run Windows 10 Mobile have been able to buy handsets with the new OS installed. Now patiently waiting Phone 8.1 owners can upgrade their smartphones to the operating system – well, some of them, anyway. "Today, we're pleased to begin the roll-out of Windows 10 Mobile to select Windows …
So the upshot of this is:
On Mobile (where MS is tiny and needs a reason like a major free upgrade to the latest and greatest to pull in punters)
People who want Win 10 have to beg for it and still may not get it.
On Desktop (where MS is massive and needs to avoid upsetting users en masse to maintain its position)
People are being forced to bend over and take Win 10 regardless of whether they want it. Those Win 7/8 users who reject it have to edit their registry, disable Win update and be vigilant with a wooden stake to keep the GWX zombie off their computers
"On Mobile (where MS is tiny and needs a reason like a major free upgrade to the latest and greatest to pull in punters)
People who want Win 10 have to beg for it and still may not get it."
In your scenario they've already bought the phone, so how does an upgrade pull a new user in? A new user will buy a new phone that will come with W10.
Just opened Office on iOS. Waiting to see if the equivalent GWX 'Malware' has started appearing on Office for iOS and Android...Microsoft must be feeling those users are missing out on all the fun.
Not yet...is today's answer.
Well, one my Lumia 1020 I got:
1. A slow phone
2. Here Maps and Drive vanish in June
3. A less good camera app than 8.1 (from a 1020 owners point of view)
4. A less good email client than we had in 8.1 (why can't I just link my folders and view multiple accounts in one folder - I loved that).
I could go on...
With heavy heart I moved to Android 3 weeks ago.
While the app will not be updated for WP8.1 neither will the data, so eventually you will be navigating to addresses that can't be found, or roads that have changes, bus timetables that have changed, businesses that have moved. This will impact transit, maps and drive versions of HERE on WP8.1
I tried Andriod a few months ago not because I disliked windows phone but I'm one for trying different things, and I liked the new Samsung phones but unfortunately just like the works IPhone got fed up with scroll scroll, click click, scroll and then get lost as to where I am and seemed very buggy not what I expected for a top end phone.
I'm now just waiting for my Lumia 950 to arrive I find Windows phone a lot simpler to use and in most instances you do not have to do anything because the information is there on the live tiles which I missed
...my mum's 630 is not on the list.
8.1 is a terrific phone OS, and very OAP-friendly for a smart phone.
10 may get there eventually, unless it's axed before then, but is still too rough around the edges, IMHO, and has lost a few of the little UI quirks (when compared to Android & iOS) that actually made it so bloody good in daily use.
My Work device is a 735 and it will be staying on 8.1 for as long as I can keep it running. From a work point of view the email and exchange integration is the best around and the Here maps are excellent when i am driving between sites in London.
I should caveat that the media experience is poor to the point I still run an HTC one as my personal device, but for work WinMo does the job.
There were these three systems you see: VHS, BetaMax and LaserDisc.VHS relied on terrible technology - a real lash up - to encode its tapes which came in really big cassettes making the players similarly huge. The picture quality and sound were awful and the tapes kept breaking. Betamax used really clever encoding technology which rendered really well with brilliant sound and came in neat small cassettes which rarely entangled or failed. The Laserdiscs were very expensive but the best in terms of picture/sound quality, offered random access and because they were old 33.3rpm LP record sized, could be stacked very economically on shelves etc. The players - also pricey - were thin while pretty large in plan area but, peculiarly, no bigger than the VHS players which seemed to contain a lot of air (because of the enormous loader mechanism I suppose).
Anyway, Android won and Windows 10 and iOS disappeared.
The initial promise of upgrading all WP8.1 has suffered from scope changes that introduces more risk to customer who can upgrade to WP10. The Microsoft Vision for Windows 10 was not locked down when moving to development, significant changes will destroy the deliverables and possibly add more risk to WP10 devices. Certainly Microsoft is demonstrating that it does not apply best practice in project management to achieve the publicly announced vision.
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