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Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system, as officially confirmed by Microsoft at an MSDN seminar in August 2011 and previewed at Microsoft's 'sneak peek' at Windows Phone on June 20, 2012. It was released to manufacturing on September 14, 2012[1] and released to consumers on October 29, 2012.[2]
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This page is about the second and latest version of Windows Phone. For Windows Phone as a whole, see Windows Phone. For the first version, see Windows Phone 7.
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Developer | Microsoft |
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Source model | Closed-source |
Initial release | October 29, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-10-29) |
Latest release | 8.0.10211.204 (Portico) |
Kernel type | Hybrid (NT kernel)[citation needed] |
License | Commercial proprietary software |
Preceded by | Windows Phone 7 |
Official website | www |
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Devices were initially launched by four companies: Nokia, Samsung, Huawei, and HTC. All devices are based on System on Chips from Qualcomm. Current Windows Phone 7.x devices can not run or update to Windows Phone 8 and new applications compiled specifically for Windows Phone 8 are not made available for Windows Phone 7.x devices.[3]