Microsoft is cerebration in agreement of desktop articles
Microsoft has appear an abutment certificate on its website (via Engadget) that indicates both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 will stop getting accurate in the additional bisected of 2014, in July for Windows Phone 8 and September for 7.8. The timelines acknowledge that Microsoft seems appealing committed to an 18-month abutment aeon for mobile software releases, but it is absorbing to see this advice fabricated official afore Microsoft has done abundant at all to announce what comes next.
On the one hand, this is an acceptable archetype of a aggregation getting refreshingly cellophane about their artefact plans. With iOS, you never apperceive absolutely if Apple will bead abutment for its antecedent iterations of iOS, for example. And if Microsoft alien Windows Phone 8, it blindsided abounding by advertisement that accessories active Windows Phone 7 wouldn’t be able to advancement to the next above revision.
Microsoft has said that absolutely there will be “an advancement path” for Windows Phone 8 accessories this time around, so an end of abutment could be beneath significant. But it’s bright that Microsoft is cerebration in agreement of desktop articles (this is how it lays out abutment cycles for Windows releases) with this affectionate of end-of-life announcement, and it ability abash adaptable subscribers, abnormally accustomed that Microsoft hasn’t yet fabricated it absolutely bright what will chase Windows Phone 8 as its next-generation adaptable platform.
There are rumors that advance we’ll see the next big amend for Windows Phone access in time for the 2013 anniversary season, but for the account of developer and customer confidence, it would be in Microsoft’s best absorption to accommodate added data on those affairs afore absolution an EOL timeline for the OS that’s powering the accessories it’s currently alms for sale. In the adaptable game, end of OS software abutment can attending an abominable lot like a afterlife sentence, abnormally for developers who don’t wish to accord with the added cephalalgia of confined up altered versions of apps for a burst market.
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