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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by kpeel on Thursday June 21, 2012 @12:42PM (#4142847)
They should have done the upgrade like Apple. Everyone gets the upgrade, but not everyone gets all of the features of the upgrade (e.g. I got iOS 5, but not Siri).

It sounds like they're doing just this in spirit by backporting some features to Windows 7, but calling it Windows 7.8 instead of Windows 8. Marketing mistake?

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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by Gal3rielol on Thursday June 21, 2012 @09:45PM (#4145042)
No, it is different. The 3GS still can run the apps designed for iOS6 because the OS support the new APIs. It just lacks of some functions compared to the newer devices. However, the WP7 devices can no more run the apps designed for WP8 which means that the WP7 platform has been abandoned.
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Re:Windows Phone 8 vs. iOS vs. Android: One giant leap for M... by mc32 on Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:27PM (#4143155)
AFAIK it's a different codebase altogether. One's based on WinCE and the other on Windows8, so it would be misleading to imply that upgrade to 7.5 was based on Win8.
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