It's official: Microsoft says "**** you" to WP7 owners

[Hicks12]

"Starting June 2, anyone who buys a new Windows 7 PC will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 for $15 once the new operating system launches. The deal provides an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro from any version of Windows 7, and will be valid until January 31, 2013." ?

Forgot about that, i guess if they could do it for a small price then it would be a good idea? More i think about it the more it seems a bit ill thought out and am in agreement (mostly) to what has been said!.

[The Hand]

This was the main reason why I was holding back from a WP7.5 phone, though if prices fall I still could be tempted. A HTC Radar for £100 would do nicely!

[KeyboardDemon]

When commentators talked about how the current range of phones running WP7.x can't support multicore CPUs and that Windows 8 would allow this I already had the expectation that the current hardware would get left behind, that's why I'm 1 month out of contract and still not decided on what to do with regards to upgrade to an iPhone 4s, get an Android phone or wait until the Windows 8 phones can be looked at as an option in February. Personally I think it is worth the wait, it gives me time to reduce my monthly tariff and save a few pounds every month to put towards what ever it is that I decide to do at that point.

[pp05]

This was the main reason why I was holding back from a WP7.5 phone, though if prices fall I still could be tempted. A HTC Radar for £100 would do nicely!

Am also thinking should I buy a candybar before they become extinct or look at omnia 7 / lumia 710 as temporary stopgap. As long as it has whatsapp it will kill the time.

As long as the phone does what people need with a days battery life, I don't see the problem. Lumia 800 is already £260 on expansys and they're not the cheapest.

[killee]

it is quite common for ms to ditch their loyal customers.... look at all those windows mobile 6/6.5 owners, they cant even use the ms my phone service now.
but still i think the best wp7 phone around is the htc titan. largger screen is really the sweet spot

[pctech2012]

MS is going through the same cycle as it did with desktop OS versions.

Upgrade your hardware or you won't get this or that cool new feature or it'll run like a dog on your (insert expensive 2 year old CPU name from the past here that was then considered junk by MS)

Thankfully with Windows 7 they built it to scale gracefully, this may well happen with the phone OS in a few versions but you'll have to pay for the upgrade though.

[whoosh]

I'm not too worried, my sim free LG Optimus 7 is nearly 2 years old now - so I'll be looking to upgrade the hardware soon anyway - though it still works great . .

[csgohan4]

When commentators talked about how the current range of phones running WP7.x can't support multicore CPUs and that Windows 8 would allow this I already had the expectation that the current hardware would get left behind, that's why I'm 1 month out of contract and still not decided on what to do with regards to upgrade to an iPhone 4s, get an Android phone or wait until the Windows 8 phones can be looked at as an option in February. Personally I think it is worth the wait, it gives me time to reduce my monthly tariff and save a few pounds every month to put towards what ever it is that I decide to do at that point.

Consider the Nokie Lumia 920 strongly

[shaithis]

Like it or not, an NT based platform makes a lot of sense for MS in light of Surface (and W8)- for the first time MS will be offering the same fundamental OS on 3 distinct platform types.

Windows NT was available on multiple platforms up to 4.0....which ran on IA-32, x86-64, Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, ARM and Itanium

[dangel]

Windows NT was available on multiple platforms up to 4.0....which ran on IA-32, x86-64, Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, ARM and Itanium

Holy three month old quotes Regardless I wasn't talking architecture - i'm talking phone, tablet and PC (i.e. distinct).
NT has been available on different processors for most of it's life but most of them fell by the wayside after 4.0 and ARM comes out next month (you're thinking of CE which supported a number of different architectures too). The very fact the WP won't be CE based makes things much more interesting - CE was 'close' to Win32 but a horrible subset of it nonetheless.