How long will Microsoft take for making major updates to their Windows Phone platform ? According to a recent job posting, new versions of Windows Phone will be released every year. These will be big updates, not just minor changes, indicating that the next version, code-named 'Apollo' might be coming sometime in Q4 2012. Yearly updates sound great for the simple fact that manufacturers have enough time to optimize the software for their hardware and consumers can easily build up a periodic upgrade cycle. Check the posting below :
This Senior Program Manager position will be the CXE Feature PM that drives all development work on the Application Platform for update releases between major yearly releases. You will work closely with the Application Platform team who is working on major yearly releases and with the best technologies/teams across the company (e.g. Silverlight, XNA, .NET Compact Framework). We believe leveraging our partners, combined with building phone specific technologies within our own engineering team, results in leveraging the best technology from Microsoft for our developers.
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