14 DAY TRIAL // Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has just announced the broad availability of its Windows Phone Mango OS flavor.
The roll-out of Mango has started only three weeks ago, but Microsoft says that they are content with how things have gone so far.
Moreover, the company is now making the OS upgrade available to almost all users around the world as detailed on their Where’s My Phone Update? website.
“When we kicked off the global rollout of Windows Phone 7.5, I told you we planned to balance quality with speed. And for three weeks we’ve been watching quality while sending update notices to a growing fraction of phones,” Eric Hautala, general manager, Customer Experience Engineering, explains
“It’s gone well. So today we’re fully opening the spigot —slightly ahead of schedule—and making Mango available to nearly everyone in the current delivery pool.”
At the same time, he notes that the company started the scheduling of the new Mango update for LG Optimus 7 phones on Telefonica in Spain.
However, things are not in order for all users out there, and there will still be a series of issues that the company is working on resolving,
“For example, we're working with Orange in Europe to resolve a couple technical issues that are temporarily preventing us from delivering updates at full throttle to all its Windows Phone customers,” Eric Hautala notes.
Microsoft is also working on finalizing the update for some other devices out there, so as to make the Windows Phone 7.5 OS flavor available for as many users as possible in the near future.
Hautala also announced that, starting with the next week, users would start receiving model-specific firmware updates from their handset makers, which means that they will be receiving new update notifications on their devices.
“These updates are designed to activate new Windows Phone 7.5 features or improve your phone’s performance. Not everybody will receive or require one: It all depends on your country, carrier, and phone model,” he concluded.