Lumia Phone X could be much rumored Microsoft Surface Phone

In another delay (this is the second time now), Windows 10 Mobile update on the existing Windows 8 phones has been pushed to February now. “For each of the supported systems listed on the OEM pages”, Microsoft explains, “the OEM has committed to additional testing, regular validation of Windows Updates, and publishing drivers and firmware for Windows 10 on Windows Update which will help unlock the security and power management benefits of Windows 10 once the systems are upgraded”. The news has been confirmed by Redmond based software major that told about it in an email set to its partners. If everything goes fine the company will tentatively launch it as cumulative update sometime in the mid February. This staggered support plan has irritated a vocal customer segment, concerned that Microsoft is strong-arming them into shifting to Windows 10. However a new report from Windows Central, who also broke the original report, claims that things might have changed, and that we could be looking at a delayed announcement instead.

To enforce this point, Microsoft lets users verify if their Windows 8 Mobile phones will play well with the latest mobile OS. It is learnt that the Windows 10 OS for the handsets might have cropped up a few issues, which are yet to be resolved by Microsoft before the release.

Myerson’s rationale basically boils down to older versions of Windows’ underlying technology being too old to support new system-on-a-chip technologies like those in Skylake, Kaby Lake, and Bristol Ridge, at least not without an investment Microsoft is unwilling to make for its old operating systems.

In a short time after the launch of the update, Windows 10 Mobile users started seeing errors on their handsets.

There is one upside to this situation for owners of Lumia phones.

Windows puts a lot of effort into making its premium smartphones attractive, but the competition with iOS and Android devices is an attrition war.