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"Good news Windows Phone handset owners: provided that you do not live in Spain, the Mango update is yours for the taking.\r\n\r\nAfter a remarkably (in comparison to the NoDo update) smooth roll out process, that started earlier than expected, Microsoft has made the software available, ahead of schedule, to nearly every device owner. It's quite a dramatic change of fortunes, since the last Windows Phone upgrade was such a debacle.\r\n\r\nIf you do live in Spain, the good news is that the update has passed testing, and is currently being scheduled. Your wait will should not be too long.\u00A0Microsoft noted three weeks of tracking the update process as crucial in allowing it to release the software more broadly.\u00A0&amp;quot;It\u2019s gone well. So today we\u2019re fully opening the spigot \u2014slightly ahead of schedule,&amp;quot; Microsoft said. This is good news for the Windows Phone platform as it has cleared one of the early hurdles that it needed to, helping to ensure a potentially\u00A0fruitful\u00A0holiday sales cycle.\r\n\r\nThere remain some minor handset-specific issues, but those appear to be nearly sorted. In addition to Mango, Microsoft has promised to &amp;quot;start delivering some model-specific 'firmware' from handset makers.&amp;quot; It warns users to not &amp;quot;be alarmed&amp;quot; if they are thus given a new update. All this just so that Microsoft can catch up with the broader market.\r\n\r\nWhat we are still waiting to see is the new Mango-ready hardware that is going to take on the top-of-the-market offerings, such as the iPhone 4S. Mango (Windows Phone 7.1) is capable software, but what chariot will drive it? We are still waiting for an answer."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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