Microsoft update failed 1/10

24 February 2011, Last updated at 12: 18 GMT Samsung user Alex Roebuck took this picture of his phone ' bricked ' Microsoft has revealed that 1 in 10 people who have tried to install a software update about their problems with the Windows mobile experience.

The company had said previously that were affected only a "small number" of phones.

The owners have reported a number of issues after the download, phones damage, to become completely unusable.

Microsoft has pulled the update immediately after the problem came to light.

On the website of Microsoft, corporate blogger Michael Stroh wrote: "went perfectly with the upgrade process? No — but some large-scale software updates never do, and here the engineering team was prepared.

"Of course, when the phone is having a problem — or you're the one listening — is even worse."

The problem seems to have hit only phones Samsung, Omnia model in particular.

Bad connection

Microsoft said that most of those affected had a bad internet connection, or too little storage on the computer that the update was installed from.

Blog posting company directs users to a resolution line guide, as well as suggesting that visit its Windows phone forum.

Many of the messages on that website users detailed attempt to recover their phones.

Lphilly79 wrote: "I disconnected the phone, remove the battery and the phone started again in the original (v7004).

"It is not obvious, changes were made and everything is ok, it's exactly as it was before attempting to upgrade".

It seemed a member, called Eliuzhi, has had less luck: "now my phone is bricked can't do anything!"

Microsoft has stated that it will release a new update as soon as it has identified how to fix the problem.

The company is looking to grow its lucrative smartphone market share, having lost ground to Apple, Google and Blackberry.

It recently announced a tie-up with Nokia that would see the producer's laptop running Windows Phone on its smartphone devices.

Dell XPS Update 15, 17 with Sandy Bridge, GT500M series

Dell has revamped its XPS 15 and 17 notebook, adding the latest Silicon from Intel and Nvidia. The smallest machine can be equipped with one of three Sandy Bridge Core i7 processors up to 2.7 GHz, as well as a 1 GB Nvidia GeForce GT525M or 2 GB GT540M.

The basic package comes with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM which maxes out at 8 GB, while peak storage 750 GB to 256 GB or mechanics for flash. For a premium, 15.6-inch display can be updated from 720 p to 1080p, with or without facial recognition technology.

The largest system adds a Core i7 and Core i5 chips the two mix and increments the graphics to a 1 GB GeForce GT550M or 3 GB GT555M. It is also with the Nvidia 3D vision kit and a 3D-ready display, while max RAM and storage are increased to 16 GB and 1.2.

Both come with your choice of DVD or Blu-Ray, six-or nine-drums, as well as a 9-in-1 card reader, a 2MP camera, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI 1.4, Bluetooth 3.0, and optional WWAN modules and Wireless Display alongside the usual connectivity.

the XPS 15 starts at $ 1,050 while 17 XPS kicks off at $ 900, and both have currently a estimated ship date of March 15. Dell simultaneously stopped the 14 XPS Core processors based on Intel's first-gen, although it has not been introduced yet another new model.

Microsoft update, Windows Phone 7 botches---is this phone jinxed?

Microsoft just can't seem to get Windows Phone 7 right---this time it has botched a minor update for Samsung phones, which "brick" devices so that they are unnecessary. Then compounded the error apparently not pulling the update after it said it had. Not so for Android and iPhone.

Within the last few days, Microsoft has started pushing a minor update to Windows Phone 7. This is not the important update, since I would like to add features like copy and paste. The update is designed to enhance the built-in updater, so that future updates will work correctly. Yes, you read that right---Microsoft botched an update for an updater.

Shortly after the upgrade began to be pushed to users of phones, Samsung Windows Phone 7 devices began reporting that the devices were being bricked by update. Microsoft first replied by saying that "We are investigating reports related to the process of updating Windows Phone and will provide more information and guidance as it becomes available," according to Mary Jo Foley.

Then today, Microsoft announced it was pulling the update. Computerworld reports that Microsoft said:

"We have identified a technical problem with the process of updating Windows Phone that impacts a small number of phones. In response to this emerging problem, we have temporarily taken down the latest update of the software for mobile phones Samsung in order to correct the problem. "

But it seems that Microsoft could not, in fact, they pulled the update. Several sites, including World and Mobile Tech report wpcentral that the update has not yet been extracted.

This is just the latest of the comedy of errors that has become the mobile strategy at Microsoft. Has released a smartphone OS well before Apple or Google and then let it rot while Apple and Google launched smartphone operating systems that now dominate the market. It has launched the ill-fated Kin, one of the worst phone ever designed. The launch of Windows Phone 7, designed to give Microsoft the chance to fight in the mobile market, it was just exciting at best. And now you can manage to release a minor update correctly---or resolve the issue, when he finds out.

Microsoft made the right move, when it signed an agreement with Nokia to Windows Phone 7. But if it cannot successfully its strategy, all the billions that will pay for that affair will be wasted. This latest problem is not a good sign, that is able to get Windows Phone 7 right.

IWeb update fixes FTP issue, publishing more

While the announcement of Apple subscriptions coming to iOS the App Store was certainly the main news from Cupertino on Tuesday, Apple has also released a small update to its Web publishing software to iWeb.

iWeb 3.0.3 contains bug fixes and improvements "and Apple calls specifically the following changes:

* Fixes a problem when you use the iSight movie widget on some Mac

* Fixes a problem with publish iWeb sites through FTP

Improves compatibility with Mac OS X

Upgrading heavy (185.9 MB on my Mac Pro) is available now via the Apple website or through a mechanism of OS X Software Update (Apple iWeb not selling on the App Store).

Development of iWeb has slowed to a crawl in recent years. You may remember that when iLife ' 11 was published in October 2010, iWeb was one of two applications that Apple doesn't rev suite updated (iDVD hasn't been updated by the iLife ' 08 Back in 2007).

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