{"id":647346,"date":"2013-03-18T18:54:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=383223"},"modified":"2013-03-18T18:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:54:38","slug":"microsoft-to-drop-windows-phone-8-support-in-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647346","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to drop Windows Phone 8 support in July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/microsoft-windows-phone-updates-2014-383223\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-htc-windows-phone-8x-2.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Windows Phone Update\" title=\"Windows Phone 8\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) has revealed support timelines for the current versions of its Windows Phone mobile operating system. The company will issue security updates to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone-7-8\">Windows Phone 7.8<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone-8\">Windows Phone 8<\/a> for 18 months following each of the platforms&#8217; launches. Windows Phone 8 support will therefore end on July 8th, 2014, while support for Windows 7.8 will run until September 9th, 2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> notes that while it will issue fixes, &#8220;distribution of the updates may be controlled by the mobile operator or the phone manufacturer from which you purchased your phone.&#8221; It also revealed that updates will vary based upon &#8220;country, region, and hardware capabilities.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/_w-WdXctIAc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) has revealed support timelines for the current versions of its Windows Phone mobile operating system. The company will issue security updates to Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 for 18 months following each of the platforms&#8217; launches. Windows Phone 8 support will therefore end on July 8th, 2014, while support for Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647346","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}