With Windows 10 Mobile we will say goodbye to long waits for updates
One of the most unpleasant problems most smartphone users have to deal with is how long operating system updates takein being available for our phones, due to the time that the operators take to test and approve said updates.
While this problem is much more serious on Android, Windows Phone users are not spared from it. An example of this is Lumia Denim, which began shipping at the end of December (5 months ago) and still hasn't reached many teams.Fortunately, with the arrival of Windows 10 Microsoft plans to take radical measures to reduce these waiting times
Specifically, Redmond will begin to distribute updates independently from carriers, in the same way as in iOS, allowing so let's update the operating system from the first day new versions of it are released by the company.
This information has come to light within the official Windows Update for Business announcement, which mentions the following:
Even so, this does not mean that the operators will stop having a voice and participation in the update process, since Microsoft itself has also indicated that they will have privileged access to the previews of new versions of Windows 10 Mobile, and will have direct communication channels to present suggestions and proposals for changes, and thus avoid problems such as the disaster that Apple had with update 8.iOS 0.1.
Of course, it is possible that the distribution of some firmware updates will continue to be in the hands of the operators, and that these changes of firmware are required for other Microsoft updates to function properly, but those cases are expected to be very rare.
In this way, Microsoft would be meeting the self-imposed goals at the WinHEC conference a few months ago, where they promised that starting with Windows 10 the updates would begin to be distributed in just 6 weeks . Unfortunately, we still don't know if Windows 10 itself (the upgrade from Windows Phone 8.1) will be subject to these conditions. Most likely, we will have more information on this in the coming weeks.
Via | Winbeta
headline: Microsoft will bypass carriers to deliver Windows 10 Mobile updates faster
