Older Windows Phones Can’t Be Upgraded to 7 Series

Even the newest and fastest Windows phones won’t be upgradable to Microsoft’s next-generation adaptable operating system, Windows Buzz 7 Series, if it acreage after this year.

Natasha Kwan, accepted administrator for Microsoft’s Adaptable Communications Business in the Asia-Pacific region, told APC Mag that accepted phones active Windows Adaptable 6.5 OS will accept incremental upgrades, but they can’t be upgraded to Windows Buzz 7 Series because they don’t accommodated the accouterments belief that Microsoft has allowable for phones active the new OS.

That will accordingly advance to some buyers’ anguish for accepted Windows Adaptable users, such as those who just bought the cast new HTC HD2. The buzz is getting disqualified out because it has 5 buttons rather than the three buttons allowable for all Windows Buzz 7 Series devices.

Microsoft endure ages alien Windows Buzz 7 Series at Adaptable World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. To abode the affair of breach — a circuitous accouterments ecosystem that requires developers to cipher several versions of one app to advertise on one belvedere for altered types of phones — Microsoft is alive added carefully with accomplishment ally in the architecture action of their hardware. Microsoft has been ambiguous about absolutely what the appropriate blueprint would be for Windows 7 Series phones.

Later, Microsoft Australia developer advocate said in a podcast that Microsoft has fatigued up three “chassis” for accepted blueprint that three altered types of Windows Buzz 7 Series will accept to meet. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley explained that Chassi 1 will be for “big touchscreen phones,” Chassi 2 will be for handsets with sliding keyboards and Anatomy 3 will be for candybar-style phones.

Long adventure short, the bad account is accepted Windows Adaptable users won’t be able to advancement to Windows Buzz 7 Series. The acceptable account is it appears Windows buzz developers will be able to cipher apps for three altered types of phones — as against to authoritative apps for all sorts of altered handsets from assorted manufacturers, like they had to do with Windows Adaptable 6.5. Ideally, the new accomplishing of three accepted anatomy should spell out to easier development, and appropriately added Windows Buzz 7 Series apps for users.