Re: [新聞]微軟承諾可見將來都不會再有像WP8的大更新
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Microsoft: We've only shown you a minority of consumer features in Windows
Phone 8 so far
Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for Windows Phone, has told Pocket-lint
that the company has so far only showed a minority of features aimed at
consumers in Windows Phone 8. We can expect plenty more to be revealed in the
run up to the launch later this year.
"We showed a lot at the Sneak Peek event in San Francisco, if you were a
developer or an IT pro," he exclusively told us.
"Of the end-user consumer visible features and capabilities, we showed a
minority of features at the event."
Sullivan wouldn't share with us what the company still has in store, but
confirmed there was plenty more coming besides just a new start screen -
maybe a new Windows Phone 8 arched keyboard?
Much of the Sneak Peek event focused on Windows Phone 8 developer and IT pro
features, with consumers only really getting a glimpse at the new start
screen and the NFC wallet. However, Sullivan was keen to tell us that won't
be the case in the final version.
"This release has a significant amount of new functionality for developers
and IT pros in particular, and because of the planning cycles involved in
getting them the information they need to take advantage of the release when
it hits, we thought it was important to confirm and prepare them. Which is
partly why we didn't detail all the consumer features," he explained.
The news is likely to be welcomed by Windows Phone fans who probably thought
that, from a feature point of view, the new update, expected in October,
wasn't going to deliver much to the average consumer.
"You have to balance it. We aren’t vertically integrated like Apple, we have
a host of partners we work with, a developer eco-system to think about," said
Sullivan.
"We [Microsoft] provide a general-purpose platform that provides a choice of
manufacturers and a choice of folks building on it, and that really makes it
difficult for us to launch hours after we announce it."
It's a schedule that the senior product manager hopes won't have to be
repeated anytime soon though.
"The way we are thinking about this is that Windows Phone 8 is a generational
shift that has an associated discontinuity that we don't expect to happen
again soon," he said.
"The headroom that we get from this new architecture is so significant that
it provides us room to grow for a long time."
That headroom is in line with what you see on laptops and tablets today. In
theory, Sullivan said, the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system will be
able to support processors with not just dual-core capability, but also those
up to 64-cores.
But why the change now rather than three years ago when Windows Phone 7 was
announced? Did the Windows Phone team make a mistake? Sullivan doesn't think
so.
"We reset our mobile strategy in early 2009. And in late 2010 we delivered a
product based on that approach. We went back to the drawing board and started
over," he told us.
"We didn't start over from an architecture point of view, but we went very
'low'. It did lots of things, but not what we have today with Windows Phone 8.
"We didn't [go with Windows architecture] because of a couple of dynamics
that made it infeasible to do that at the time. The first is that Windows
wasn't on ARM at that time. Could the phone team have down it? Yes I suppose,
but that work hadn't been done yet.
"The other reason is that the work we've done on Windows Phone 8 and the
processors are different in a meaningful way from the previous generation or
the ones that we are shipping on today.
"At a risk of over simplifying it, the work on the SOCs [phone processors]
today is hierarchy dominated by the modem chip and the apps processor is
secondary to it, in the next generation that relationship is reversed and the
apps processor is the boss."
But perhaps more importantly for Microsoft, seeing that Apple's iPhone was
dominating the smartphone market, and Google's Android platform was starting
to get traction, Microsoft didn't want to wait any longer.
"In 2009 it didn't seem a good idea to wait for multi-core processor
support," Sullivan rationalised.
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不好意思懶得逐段翻了。
前半段是在說WP8會有更多會場上沒提到的新功能,後半段則是在解釋WP7升級問題。
大意就是,為何當初沒有讓WP7機種搭配較好的硬體(多核支援)預留能夠升級的空間呢?因
為WP7作為2009年WM砍掉重練後的系統,沒時間搞那些當時已經出現的多核支援。他同時
認為這次WP8大改其實是他們一直想要做的,但不認為當時先讓WP上有何不對,因為當時
蘋果已經吃掉大半行動市場,估狗也展現了牽制的實力急起直追,微軟不能等。
言下之意就是在微軟的規劃中,WP7系列只是為了卡位的半成品,但他們不覺得有錯。以
市場策略來說或許無可厚非,但你WP推出時有跟消費者說清楚嗎?你跟消費者說是全新架
構,現在又改口間接承認那只是半成品所以沒辦法升級到WP8。最令人生氣的是他那句
"Did the Windows Phone team make a mistake? Sullivan doesn't think so."
這樣還護航得下去嗎?
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講這樣還看不懂,我也沒必要解釋給你們懂
你們覺得很好、沒什麼或可接受我也沒有任何意見
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我又沒逼你看我的翻譯,你會不會太好笑了點
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But why the change now rather than three years ago when Windows Phone 7 was
announced? Did the Windows Phone team make a mistake? Sullivan doesn't think
so.
前後文看一看好嗎
※ 編輯: Riyuberg 來自: 220.136.188.204 (07/03 20:30)
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