14 DAY TRIAL // Early 2011 is expected to bring along some updates for Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 platform, though only minor ones, it seems. The mobile OS would indeed taste a major upgrade next year, but only sometime during fall, some of the latest reports point at.
The said major update would supposedly sport the codename of Mango, and should be so big, that Microsoft might even call it Windows Phone 7.5 when releasing it.
The software solution would reportedly be followed by another flavor of the mobile OS, none other than the Windows Phone 8 release, which should arrive sometime in 2012 with the codename of Apollo attached to it.
Microsoft is known to have already started the work on Windows Phone 8, but no info on what the release might include emerged for the time being.
However, it seems that details on the said major update for Windows Phone 7, called Mango, did emerge. Some of the main enhancements would be Silverlight run-time and HTML 5 support.
Other changes with the platform might be focused on making the operating system a more enterprise focused solution, as it is currently consumer-focused, ZDNet reports.
Of course, nothing was confirmed for the time being, except for the upcoming availability of a software update for Windows Phone 7 in January, with some improvements that would enhance the user experience, including copy & paste functionality and more.
Previously, it has been suggested that Microsoft would plan on making the January update a major one, but some of the latest rumors suggested that the company would be set to unveil the major update during the MWC show in Barcelona.
If so, it would make sense for the actual update to arrive in late 2011, after being announced in February.
Windows Phone 7 was announced at MWC 2010 and launched in October, one year after the Windows Phone 6.5 OS arrived on shelves. Provided that Mango is indeed Windows Phone 7.5, it might very well arrive one year after WP7, one should agree.