Windows Phone 7.8 coming next year, upsetting users

November 29, 2012

Microsoft’s next OS update for Windows Phone 7 handsets won’t be available until sometime in 2013. The news, posted on a Microsoft blog Wednesday, led to a stream of frustrated comments from existing Windows Phone users, complaining they will have to wait until at least two months after the launch of Windows Phone 8 to get some of the new features. Users are upset because the latest release of the OS, Windows Phone 8, isn’t compatible with older handsets running Windows Phone 7. The users feel that as early adopters of the OS, they’ve been abandoned by Microsoft and will soon be abandoned by developers that won’t bother releasing software for the older platform. “I feel like I wasted my money, sadly not recommend to my friends to buy Windows Phone now, one year with my Lumia and now will be abandoned,” read one user post. “Disappointed. Extremely disappointed. Beyond extremely disappointed. The first [Windows Phone 7.8] announcement was in June of 2012. Five months later, we still don’t have it,” read another.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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