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Windows Phone 8.1 is the third generation of Microsoft Mobile's Windows Phone mobile operating system, succeeding Windows Phone 8.It was based on Windows 8.1.Rolled out at Microsoft's Build Conference in San Francisco, California on April 2, 2014, it was released in final form to Windows Phone developers on April 14, 2014 and reached general availability on August 4, 2014.
Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system from Microsoft.It was released on October 29, 2012, and, like its predecessor, it features a flat user interface based on the Metro design language.
Windows 8.1 was made available for download via MSDN and Technet and available as a free upgrade for retail copies of Windows 8 and Windows RT users via the Windows Store. A server version, Windows Server 2012 R2, was released on October 18, 2013. Windows 8.1 aimed to address complaints of Windows 8 users and reviewers on launch.
Windows Phone 7 [j] Metro ARMv7: October 29, 2010 Windows Phone 7.5: Mango: September 27, 2011 Windows Phone 7.8: Tango: February 1, 2013 Windows Phone 8: Apollo October 29, 2012 NT 6.2 Windows Phone 8.1: Blue April 14, 2014 NT 6.3 Windows 10 Mobile, version 1511: Threshold 2 November 12, 2015 1511 Windows 10 Mobile, version 1607: Redstone 1 ...
Windows Phone (WP) is a discontinued [6] mobile operating system developed by Microsoft Mobile for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile [7] [8] and Zune. [9] Windows Phone featured a new user interface derived from the Metro design language.
Microsoft Windows 8 operating system logo. This is a list of hardware devices that are shipped with Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system. HTC Corporation, Samsung, Nokia and Huawei have all launched Windows Phone 8 based devices. The list, sorted by processor and screen resolution, contains devices that have been confirmed and ...
Furthermore, like in Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 (since the latter shares the same Windows NT kernel as its desktop variant), OEMs who preload Windows 8 can choose not to support certain display languages either out of the box or make them available for download. These exact choices depend on the device manufacturer and country/region ...
Windows Phone 7.8 is the final major release of Windows Phone 7. It consists exclusively of user interface improvements backported from Windows Phone 8, as existing Windows Phone 7 devices can not be upgraded to due to changes to its architecture and hardware requirements. These include a home screen with the ability to resize live tiles, new ...