Windows Phone 7 Update schedule arrives: stinks for AT&T users
Earlier in the week, Microsoft started shipping “NoDo”, the first major update for Windows Phone 7 that brings copy and paste support to the platform, along with some performance improvements and bug fixes. What the company wasn’t revealing back then was who would get the update, or when they would get it. The company has previously intimated that carriers can “delay” updates for “testing” (even though this doesn’t make much sense), so the rollout was due to be staggered. Unbranded phones (that is, those without network operator logos plastered all over them) in the EU would receive the update first, with carrier-branded phones receiving them at some point in time thereafter.
First the good news: Microsoft has now published a schedule of sorts for the updates. Instead of having to guess or hope that the carrier will disclose its status, there are now lists for the US and for the rest of the world to look at.