Windows Mobile 7.8 for older hardware


             At the end of the presentation of Windows Phone 8, Microsoft provided more clear: The new software will not run on older hardware. The owners of smartphones with Windows Mobile 5.7 will have to make do with an update to version 7.8, which is to bring some of the features of the new operating system on the old platform. What are they shown on Wednesday but the new boot screen is still not known. Microsoft also said not that older models for an update to 7.8 are provided.

            Windows Phone boss Terry Myerson counted again on the reasons for this: multi-processor support, new graphics processors, new architectures and NFC modem and MicroSD support. A date for the update called Microsoft yet. The version 7.8 is expected to be installed as usual on the Zune software. Updates for Windows Mobile 8 will, according to Myerson in the future "over-the-air" place, a PC is no longer necessary.

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