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Microsoft releases a Windows Phone 7 update
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Microsoft is rolling out its first Windows Phone 7 (WP7) update, but warns users not to get too excited.
For the most of 2011, the Vole has been drip feeding information on updates for WP7, with its soft-spoken CEO Steve Ballmer dedicating the majority of his speech at Mobile World Congress on the matter. So when Microsoft's Michael Stroh announced the firm had released the first WP7 update, he was quick to play down its significance by saying, "Now, before you get too excited, let me explain: This isn't the update you've probably been reading about or perhaps waiting for, the one with copy and paste (but that's coming soon)."
For its first WP7 update Microsoft has decided to update WP7's software update application. Stroh says that the update will improve the whole software update process, admitting that while it doesn't sound too exciting - after all, what can match the excitement of getting copy and paste on your smartphone? - the update is "paving the way for all future goodie-filled updates to your phone".
At present Microsoft will not be sending the WP7 update over-the-air. Instead it is asking users to hook up their WP7 devices to its Zune software or WP7 Connector for Mac. However, as Stroh pointed out, there will be some who need to update their Zune software first. So WP7's software update needs an update which needs a update, and it seems Microsoft is heading towards an infinite loop.
Microsoft says that there will be a staggered rollout of the update with the first WP7 users being notified today.
Even though this update doesn't quite live up to the hype Microsoft has been trying to generate, its release tends to suggest that the so-called 'copy and paste' update is not far off. We expect that the half-dozen people who have Microsoft WP7 smartphones can hardly wait. µ
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As a non owner of this phone: Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha, Ha ha ha.
Morally I shouldn't want it to be this... funny. I know that. But I can't help myself!
An Update that needs an update that needs an update. 100 percent right on the nose.
three patches.......wait for it......
just to do a simple copy and paste.
Sounds just like a Microsoft product to me.
To Dilly May. No one seemed to make this comment when the Apple iPhone was released? They didn't have cut & paste for AGES.
It's 2011 and Microsoft cannot do copy-and-paste!
"Mummy, don't buy one of those Windy Thingies!"
The update is failing, and Microsoft Windows Phones are being turned into bricks (if they weren't already).
This was supposed to be the update that did nothing else but to make sure that future updates don't brick the phone.
Unfortunately, this update bricks Samsung and HTC phones as soon as it is applied. The update does nothing else useful.
Also, the update must come from the carrier, so people who bought SIMless phones, and then took them to a carrier that doesn't support Windows Phones, won't get any updates (either this one, or in the future).
What's worse... no updates and going without Copy-And-Paste, or having a bricked phone? This is the choice facing Windows Phone owners.
Windows Phone 7 has turned into a fiasco.
theres always a negative remark on this website "So WP7's software update needs an update which needs a update."
Well I use an iPhone and have done for the past 18 months and every time I get an update theres always an iTunes update a week before for me to download.
It's a good thing wp7 is updating, it might only be a small step but as its the first step it shows that they are innovating and taking it places
So WP7's software update needs an update which needs a update, and it seems Microsoft is heading towards an infinite loop
I know many people seem to think that Linux needs to get more like Windows to get into the mainstream, but surely Windows is imitating linux here on the RPM dependancy list...