Windows Phone 8.1 Developer Preview Released Today

Published on April 14, 2014 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

I posted recently about the announcement of the next big update for Windows Phone, which is the 8.1 update. Today, the developer preview was released by Microsoft, so developers and enthusiasts can download and try the new update before it hits the general public in the next few month.

You have to register as a developer (free) and download the preview app from the Windows Phone store to get the update. I've installed it on my Lumia 920 and like many of the improvement, but I need to spend some more time with it.

Comments

Island Dog

on Apr 15, 2014

Things I like so far:

New weekly calendar view
Notification center
Still playing with it, but Cortana seems useful

Not liking so far:

Battery usage
Some changes to the Music app

Ryat

on Apr 15, 2014

This is interesting in relation to this thread.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/04/15/microsoft-abandons-windows-8-1-take-immediate-action-or-be-cut-off-like-windows-xp/?partner=yahootix

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