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All Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices will be upgraded to Windows 10

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/13/7216421/microsoft-says-every-lumia-windows-phone-8-device-will-get-windows-10

 

Microsoft just confirmed, all Windows Phone 8 devices under the Lumia brand will be getting an update to the mobile version of Windows 10.

 

 

Microsoft doesn't plan on making the same mistake twice: the company has made a public pledge that all of Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices will be upgraded to the mobile version of Windows 10 when it's released. Responding to a customer's question on the topic, Microsoft tweeted, "We plan to upgrade all Windows Phone 8 devices to Windows 10 in the future." Microsoft's next big operating system remains in early development, so the company obviously isn't revealing details as to when that update will arrive.
 
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Still, the direct confirmation should allow Lumia owners to breathe a sigh of relief and know that history won't repeat itself. Microsoft enraged its small but loyal base of Windows Phone 7 users when it revealed existing devices wouldn't make the jump to Windows Phone 8 in 2012. That was mostly due to a significant change in the software's kernel, but the technical explanation did little to heal the wound. The underpinnings between Windows Phone 8 and Windows 10 aren't so drastically different, so another cutoff wasn't expected. But a promise that every last Lumia running Windows Phone 8 will get Microsoft's latest software is still good to hear.

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I will be interested in what windows 10 looks like on mobile because so far the whole idea of it is straying away from what makes windows 8 windows 8

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aaawwwww yis :D cant wait 

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im using windows phone right now, 8.1 something something something.

 

IT IS CRAP, i mean its is literally like they took the good parts of android and ios and ignored them.

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Might consider a lumia...

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Jolly marvellous, so long as the dev preview gets a nosey at it early on, then I'll make sure to try it out on my 8S that way, as htc certainly won't update it themselves.

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im using windows phone right now, 8.1 something something something.

 

IT IS CRAP, i mean its is literally like they took the good parts of android and ios and ignored them.

I've got 8.1 on my phone and it's great, a lot better than the original 8 and I find has got some features that are encouraging for the future.

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Ummm. I have totally different experience.

As do I. I see it as a stepping stone from the extreme locked down-ness of iOS to the very open, do-whatever-you-want Android

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I greatly enjoy my Windows Phone. I bought in to the whole ecosystem (Office 365, Xbox Music, Onedrive etc.) and it works really well. I've used Android and I just can't find anything to like about it. This is great news for me and I look forward to having Windows 10 on all my devices.

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Great to hear that the Lumia 830 I just upgraded to in October will be getting updated!

 

To the guy further up in the thread who said WP was a crap experience... That may be your experience, but I, and all the people who quoted you, love the experience.

 

I find the main reason that people don't like WP is because its not Android. Of course its not Android. If that's what your expectations were then no wonder you were disappointed.

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Even my little 520 ? Wow... 

 

I've got a black one, it's a great little phone for the money eh :P

 

im using windows phone right now, 8.1 something something something.

 

IT IS CRAP, i mean its is literally like they took the good parts of android and ios and ignored them.

Great to hear that the Lumia 830 I just upgraded to in October will be getting updated!

 

To the guy further up in the thread who said WP was a crap experience... That may be your experience, but I, and all the people who quoted you, love the experience.

 

I find the main reason that people don't like WP is because its not Android. Of course its not Android. If that's what your expectations were then no wonder you were disappointed.

My mum recently got an Android phone and is always asking me stuff about it. I had to navigate around the phone and download a few apps for the first time I used Android... It was horrible. The whole OS just seems cluttered and clunky. I mean, WP8.1 has it's problems, but I don't think I could ever use Android unless I was using something like a One M8.

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My mum recently got an Android phone and is always asking me stuff about it. I had to navigate around the phone and download a few apps for the first time I used Android... It was horrible. The whole OS just seems cluttered and clunky. I mean, WP8.1 has it's problems, but I don't think I could ever use Android unless I was using something like a One M8.

Depends what you're used to. People consider me a person that knows everything about Android phones because they ask me to do something and even if it's very complicated for them, click, click, done. It's only because I've had 20+ Android phones and I'm used to it.

 

Give me a Windows phone and I won't even know how to go into the settings menu (I actually don't)

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Depends what you're used to. People consider me a person that knows everything about Android phones because they ask me to do something and even if it's very complicated for them, click, click, done. It's only because I've had 20+ Android phones and I'm used to it.

 

Give me a Windows phone and I won't even know how to go into the settings menu (I actually don't)

You just swipe down from top to pull down notification menu, then there are some quick settings, and a button for all settings. Alternatively you could swipe left from the Start screen and find "Settings" in the All Apps list. You could also pin a shortcut to Settings on your Start screen.

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Depends what you're used to. People consider me a person that knows everything about Android phones because they ask me to do something and even if it's very complicated for them, click, click, done. It's only because I've had 20+ Android phones and I'm used to it.

 

Give me a Windows phone and I won't even know how to go into the settings menu (I actually don't)

 

Yeah honestly I can learn to do anything I need to do pretty quickly, it took me maybe half an hour to learn where most things were in WP8, even before the Cyan update. I don't have a problem knowing how to do things in Android, it just feels... Bad.. Overall, if that makes sense. Just clunky really.

Btw to get to the settings, there's a few ways. Sometimes people will have the settings tile on the home screen thing, the logo looks like a cog/gear/whatever-you-want-to-call-it. If not, you can pull the notification menu thing down from the top (there's no indication that it's there, you just slide down from the very top of the screen, this came with the Cyan update), the "all settings" option is on the right there. If not, from the home screen thing, slide it to the left and they'll be this app menu thing, showing all the apps you have on the phone, settings is in there.

I've forgotten all the names that Microsoft gave all those menus and pages and what-not, hopefully that makes sense.

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You just swipe down from top to pull down notification menu, then there are some quick settings, and a button for all settings. Alternatively you could swipe left from the Start screen and find "Settings" in the All Apps list. You could also pin a shortcut to Settings on your Start screen.

 

God damn it. 2quik4me

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Fucking SWEET.

 

Everyone laughed when I got a W8 phone, well who's laughing now? At least I don't get hacked and I get a free OS upgrade.

 

im using windows phone right now, 8.1 something something something.

 

IT IS CRAP, i mean its is literally like they took the good parts of android and ios and ignored them.

 

You mean the whole "overly complicated annoying bullshit" part of them?

 

I want a PHONE. thats it, send and receive calls and texts, take pics and vid, and get me online. Don't need 10000034923784903274983217694874589237489712631764247654327642379846 useless apps for meaningless bullshit, don't need to root the system.

 

JUST BE A FUCKING PHONE WITH INTERNET ACCESS = WINNING.

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I will be interested in what windows 10 looks like on mobile because so far the whole idea of it is straying away from what makes windows 8 windows 8

On desktops yes but on tablets it still has the old start menu so I guess it'll be more of the same

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