Windows Phone 8 Support Ends July 2014
Windows Phones 8 and 7.8 will stop being supported in the second half of 2014
Microsoft has published a support document on its website (via Engadget) that indicates both Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 7.8 will stop being supported in the second half of 2014, in July for Windows Phone 8 and September for 7.8. The timelines reveal that Microsoft seems pretty committed to an 18-month support cycle for mobile software releases, but it is interesting to see this information made official before Microsoft has done much at all to indicate what comes next.
On the one hand, this is a good example of a company being refreshingly transparent about their product plans. With iOS, you never know exactly when Apple will drop support for its previous iterations of iOS, for example. And when Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 8, it blindsided many by announcing that devices running Windows Phone 7 wouldn’t be able to upgrade to the next major revision.
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