OT: the microsoft backward compatiblity strategy lives on….

[Coronita]

…meaning… no backward compatibility.

Windows Phone 8 will not work on older devices

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/windows-phone-8-will-not-work-on-older-devices-2012-06-20?siteid=yhoof2

And since it will be closed source, no chance hacking it into an older device.

[spdrun]

They’ve generally been better than Apple in that respect. And just because its closed-source doesn’t make it unhackable 🙂

What worries me more is the walled-garden approach to Metro(sexual) apps, though it’s apparently not too difficult to side-load.

[no_such_reality]

[quote=flu]…meaning… no backward compatibility.

Windows Phone 8 will not work on older devices

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/windows-phone-8-will-not-work-on-older-devices-2012-06-20?siteid=yhoof2

And since it will be closed source, no chance hacking it into an older device.[/quote]

Microsoft… no chance hacking it…

I laughed so hard I think I pee’d myself.

[an]

That’s not too surprising. WP8 is using a different kernel. They’re migrating to NT kernel. Which is why they’re not supporting old devices. But they’re giving old devices WP7.8, which should have a lot of the WP8 features except for the kernel. That’s better than Google I’d say. Google drop support for their own Nexus One in less than 2 years. It’s worse for other OEM.

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