Windows Phone Marketplace Goes Mango Only - cornettinglacrievor

If you'atomic number 75 having bother downloading apps from the Windows Telephone Marketplace, you just might be a pre-Mango Windows Phone 7 user. Microsoft is now enforcing a predominate that only users of Windows Phone 7.5, codenamed Mango, tin use the Mart in any meaningful way. Without the Mango update you arse nonmoving browse the Marketplace, but you will start getting error messages if you attempt to download, buy, update, Beaver State review an app.

Microsoft originally declared the switch in April. At the prison term, Microsoft same information technology needed to enforce the Mango tree update to amend Marketplace stability and certificate, besides equally making style for new features and improvements to the Marketplace.

Information technology may take a few years for the spic-and-span change to work its way through the system. Thusly if your non-Mango phone hasn't been exclude of the Marketplace (except for browsing) however, it soon bequeath glucinium. The majority of Windows Phone users experience already upgraded to Mango tree, according to Microsoft, so the change should only affect those reluctant to make the Mango switch.

Microsoft primitively launched Windows Phone 7.5 in September for all Windows Phone users oblation new features such as better voice commands, dilated HTML 5 support, built-in Facebook messaging, improved live tiles, and SkyDrive document redaction.

Microsoft's attempt to pull along stragglers to update to Mango comes as Windows Phone fans wait for the company to introduce Windows Phone 8, Apollo. The next significant version of Windows Earpiece is expected to offer deep integration with Windows 8, the upcoming background OS due out in late 2012. There is also some concern that Apollo may not be compatible with current Windows Phone ironware; even so, that is only speculation and rumor at this point. Before Microsoft releases Apollo, the company is potential to release another minor update to Windows Earphone 7, codenamed Tango.

If you haven't upgraded your sound to 7.5 yet, you stool find detailed instructions on Microsoft's website.

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