Windows 10 Mobile's Anniversary Update may be right around the corner, but certain Windows Phone users may never get the chance to even taste the new OS.
Earlier this year, all Windows Phone 8.1 Lumias and a select few other phones could get Windows 10 Mobile, provided they signed up for the Windows Insider Program and downloaded the new bits from one of the available rings.
Even after Microsoft's Windows 10 Update rolled out officially and the firm blocked older devices from accessing the fast ring, old users ould still make use of the release preview ring to hop right to Windows 10 Mobile and take advantage of the new apps and benefits that come with the new OS.
Now reports are rolling in that new users can no longer take advantage of the release preview work around. Rather, any user who's stuck on 8.1 will have seen their last update, while users who are on Windows 10 November Update will have to make do with that os version warts and all. They can not roll back to 8.1 without being stuck there, nor can they progress on to Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update, leaving them trapped between a rock and a hard place.
Of course, the devices which are being orphaned are older ones so perhaps Microsoft doesn't deem it cost efficient to update older models to Windows 10, especially when there are newer Windows phones for all price points, and Microsoft's services for Mobile extend outside Windows.
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