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Windows Phone 8 is out , but where is WP 7.8?

Windows Phone 8 is out , but where is WP 7.8?
bishnoo

After all the hoopla around the WP8 platform, one wonders where the older update is…

Isn’t it strange that though WP8 has been released, there is no talk of the famed WP7.8 update for the older handsets that was supposed to give users a taste of WP8? The product department at Microsoft sure needs to look into this one.

With the upgrades that WP7.8 promised, it would have been a good launch platform to convert potentials to the WP8 scheme of things. Apparently, the update will be out only a few weeks after the first batch of WP8 phones hit the street.

This to us seems like a serious dropping of the ball between the marketing and product departments at Redmond.

What do you think of this strategy? Is it a strategy at all?

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  • http://davepermen.net David

    Its the only obvious and logical strategy at all. Get the new stuff done properly, then finish off the nonimportant legacy parts. Same for ie10. Finish the win8 version, then care about win7. Anything else would be stupid.

  • Mercury

    Feel like being abandoned by Microsoft. Time to throw away my HTC Mozart 7 and get myself a Nexus 4. Fuck you microsoft! Double fuck you windows!!

    • Jesse

      Jeeze stop the whining! I want 7.8 for my L900 just as much as the next guy! Do I wish Microsoft would hurry it up? Hell yeah! Am I being a baby about it? No! It takes time to do stuff right! And I’d prefer a good update a few weeks later than a half-baked one right now!

  • bishnoo

    But what does this say to existing customers? Also this was supposed to make you salivate for WP8 right?

    • jimski

      WP7.8 is not big news to anyone but existing WP7.x owners, which admittedly is not a whole lot. So, no reason to steal the Win8, WinRT WP8 thunder right now with a WP7.8 update. When the time is right we will get it. It’s a gift after all. Microsoft, nor the Carriers, are obliged to provide it. Patience.

  • http://charms55.blogspot.com Mark

    As I noted before somewhere: There were two paths they could take. One is to release Windows Phone 8 and let everyone wait for 7.8 until they upgrade. For some one contract, might not be much. The other, was to have released WP 7.8 either with or before Windows Phone 8. All press indicates there is not too much under the hood in 7.8 that would surpass going to Windows Phone 8.

    The difference: the first method ends up with malcontents or even just confused first adopters, the only reason Microsoft is able to be in this position to being with, being annoyed to the point of jumping ship. The second, keeps them placated and gives enough of a taste to help them make decisions later about adopting WP8.

    With all that being said, I just tweeted the note above just as a gentle reminder to MS that we are waiting. But I also have no sympathy for those who at the first sign of a delay relate they are going to grab the next available Android out of town. It is an uninformed, juvenile response to the situation. Maybe the delay is in fitting the pony into 7.8. Or the glitter.

  • James

    I dont get why people are making a big deal about this then say they are going to drop wp for android. If you want the new start screen and cant wait 2 weeks or so for it then go and buy a wp8. For the people who keep going on about they are going to Android then your putting your self in the same boat as you are in now as how many android tablets and phones are running jellybean?

    At least ms have said we will get it a few weeks after wp8 is out and as a lumia 900 owner im happy that we are getting an update as alot of android phones wont see icecream sandwage never mind jellybean.

    People now a days are far to impatientand want everything now. Stop acting like little kids and grow up as waiting 2 to 3 weeks for an update is not going to kill you.

  • SimonTony Haslwanter

    Agree I also think it’s pretty senseless to be so impatient for Windows Phone 7.8. I’m using a Nokia Lumia 800 at the time and I’m still fascinated. Sure I’m posting every day about Windows Phone 8 at my Google+ Page and I’m really looking foward to the 7.8 update but I think like most of you that should just give Microsoft a bit more time :). They really had to concentrate on Windows Phone 8 cause if there would have been any dramatically mistakes it would have been really bad for the introducing and the future of Windows Phone. So I’ll be relaxed cause I know there’s an Update in work and that’s okay like it is :)

  • phreezerburn

    It’s an enormous error. Most first time users are NOT going to dive in with the 920 or even an 820 but discounted an 800 or a Titan to $300 without contract and 7.8 onboard is setting up next year’s user base in a big big way. So far the Windows mobile starter phones have been anything but aesthetically pleasing and new users NEED that little extra bit to get them to commit. Many believe that the initial starting fee on an enormous contract is something new users are STILL oblivious to and they’re dead wrong in that assumption. You want converts, let them get their feet wet without throwing the chains of phone contracts across their shoulders.

  • http://atticasalt.wordpress.com ArchTech89

    Ummm…. “Serious dropping of the ball”? Microsoft has just released an new OS for the desktop, one for RT, a new tablet, a new phone. While I agree I would have loved 7.8 before the launch(es), where exactly in its schedule was Mirosoft supposed to accomplish WP 7.8? I think they’ve made a herculean effort (always wanted to use that word) and I think I can wait for 7.8.

    BTW. I’m already signed on to get the new Lumia 920 from Nokia so I’m not sweatin’ it as much others might be. But I still insist that this behavior from Microsoft should deserve our disdain…

    jeremyNLSO
    Berlin, Germany

  • http://atticasalt.wordpress.com ArchTech89

    *Ahem. “…insist this behavior from Microsoft should” NOT “deserve our disdain.”

  • Patibul

    Well its 2013 and it still isn’t here. I have used android before, and the only reason why i left it was because i wanted to try a new OS. Windows phone was great, but it lack developers, you can’t really find a good app on there. But that’s there my problem, its Microsoft postponing the upgrade in hope to get customers angry enough to go and grab a wp8. But as for me I’ve had enough. I can tell how its going ti be from this experience, im going back to android. Nexus, better phone better upgrades, better apps.