{"id":647262,"date":"2013-03-18T06:56:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=137153"},"modified":"2013-03-18T06:56:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:56:21","slug":"support-for-microsofts-windows-phone-8-and-7-5-ends-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647262","title":{"rendered":"Support for Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Phone 8 and 7.5 ends in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-116803\" title=\"lumia\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/lumia-300x190.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/>After screwing early adopters from upgrading their devices to <a title=\"What's new in Windows Phone 8?\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/10\/30\/whats-new-in-windows-phone-8\/\" >Windows Phone 8<\/a> and offering the <a title=\"Windows Phone 8 won't be available on anything out today, but that's okay, right?\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/06\/20\/windows-phone-8-wont-be-available-on-anything-out-today-but-thats-okay-right\/\" >lesser-featured Windows Phone 7.8<\/a> instead, Microsoft has revealed that it will provide updates over an 18-month period for WP7.8 users, with support to officially end on September 9, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>As Windows Phone 7.8 started to rolled-out earlier this year, with Nokia announcing the <a title=\"Windows Phone 7.8 arrives, check your device NOW!\" href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2013\/01\/30\/windows-phone-7-8-arrives-check-your-device-now\/\" >upgrade spree in late-January<\/a>, its lifecycle will be cut out later than Windows Phone 8&#8217;s mainstream support. Support for that OS started on December 14, 2012 and ends on July 8, 2014, two months after its lesser sibling.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is the one <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/search\/default.aspx?sort=PN&amp;alpha=Windows+Phone&amp;Filter=FilterNO\" >taking care of issuing updates and security fixes<\/a>, but the company warns that when (and if) users receive them depends on the mobile operator, smartphone maker, country, region and hardware specifications.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word at the moment concerning a possible mainstream support end date extension period for either of the two smartphone operating systems alongside a prospective future update.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=QSg9yblV47U:EovEIEMd8gA:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=QSg9yblV47U:EovEIEMd8gA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/QSg9yblV47U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After screwing early adopters from upgrading their devices to Windows Phone 8 and offering the lesser-featured Windows Phone 7.8 instead, Microsoft has revealed that it will provide updates over an 18-month period for WP7.8 users, with support to officially end on September 9, 2014. As Windows Phone 7.8 started to rolled-out earlier this year, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}