Windows Phone 7 Update Info

I’ve just noticed we’ve released some information about future updates for Windows Phone 7 including:

• Copy & Paste
• Faster app startup / resume
• Improved Marketplace search (now restricts search to apps / games)

 

Your device will inform you when a new update is available (you’ll get a pop-up message unless you’ve specifically disabled it). Expect to see these updates appear over the next few months.

For full details see this page on microsoft.com.

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• Anonymous
  January 06, 2011
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• Anonymous
  January 07, 2011
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• Anonymous
  January 07, 2011
  Well fluxx I am not saying that phone itself down't work well but some minor and major bugs are still there more than two months after launch.  The marketplace apps updates are not working very well. I have to remove reinstall an app so many times. Sometime an app refuse to work with the only option to shutdown and power on again the phone. Synchronization with PC/Outlook is really a miss. I have a lot of apps now and I will apreciate some form of folders or hubs below the first level. I can continue like that for a while. what shock me is the official update page and this blog  which give the impression that with Copy & Paste done, noone wants more. I don't want more I want things to work well on a phone (HD7) which is not quite frankly a cheap choice. Microsoft should be more transparent and provide a clear roadmap. In a CES interview, some MS developers are telling now that we have to wait not 30 days but maybe 60 days before the next update. Are they joking? I am a Microsoft .Net developer and I want to see Windows Phone 7 successful in every aspect. I am fed up to see that some of my friends are teasing me all the time with their android and what they can do with it!

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2011
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• Anonymous
  January 07, 2011
  @helpsoftware MS have made the phone personal cloud centric all sync happens over the cloud rather than via the local machine. This ensures that the data on the phone is always up to date regardless of location. Most people recommend that you connect outlook to a cloud based service such as the windows live connector for outlook. That way your desktop keeps the cloud updated and the cloud updates your phone. IMHO using Outlook locally without any associated service Is limited and quite restrictive.

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2011
  @helpsoftware I understand your point but your list of "things that should be there from the beginning" is very different from mine, and person X, Y, Z etc. That means that ultimately, if we want to ship at all, we have to prioritise and certain things don't make the cut. As a developer yourself you must have to do the same. You might not like it, it might not be ideal, but you must accept it's a reality. I don't know what bugs you've reported but as I've said, that page doesn't represent the be all and end all of the updates. There will be bug fixes and I'm sure details will appear in due course. BTW I've never had a problem with a Marketplace app update (maybe I'm just lucky but I must have done at least 20) and I don't recall ever having had to cold-boot the phone. I've been tempted when an app becomes unresponsive by hogging the UI thread - but invariably it comes back given a bit of time. Then I uninstall the app :). I don't know what you're alluding to on the developers side I'm afraid. Something I'm not aware of. Best regards Mike

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  January 07, 2011
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• Anonymous
  January 07, 2011
  Mike, your responses are all very reasonable and understandable on the specifics, but I think the general point being made here and in 1,000 other places around the Net is that people (especially developers) don't like having their choices limited, especially when they used to have more choices in the past. Things like the lack of local Outlook sync are philosophical decisions that MS made, not technical issues or (I'm pretty sure) at all customer-driven. Pushing the customer to the cloud, without giving them the choice of keeping their data local and/or moving to the cloud, makes people feel uncomfortable - no-one likes to be told what's best for them! On the developer side, even the smallest design decisions such as not allowing the HTTP 'referer' header to be set, with no technical rhyme, reason or explanation, when all other platforms in existence (including Silverlight on the desktop) allow it, are just plain indefensible. In summary, I think what we're seeing here is simply that people (both consumers and developers) don't like having the toys they're used to, and expect to have, being taken away. Let's face it, Outlook sync pre-dates smart phones, and is offered by just about all mobile device manufacturers, not just MS; and modifying the HTTP 'referer' header is part of the fabric of the Net. So, please, a little more consideration for what real users want, rather than what MS powers-that-be think is good for MS, will result in a better reputation for MS and directly lead to better market acceptance and of course higher profits for MS - what could be wrong with that? By all means give users access to the cloud, but don't force them up there with a steel-toed boot! By all means give users better security, but don't hog-tie developers in the process! Balance in all things :)

• Anonymous
  January 09, 2011
  @jefir I'm not disputing what you say at all - I just wasn't aware of it. I'm very surprised I haven't seen it discussed by my "RoW" colleagues on internal aliases. I shall do some further investigations. Mike

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2011
  No Bluetooth data transfer! Please can someone tell me if this is going to be implemented as this is a must have function. Cheers