Microsoft Planning Next Windows Phone Release for This Holiday Season

 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Microsoft Planning Next Windows Phone Release for This Holiday Season

Microsoft is planning to release a new version of Windows Phone for the holiday season, according to a job listing posted by the company.

In the listing, Microsoft is looking for a software development engineer which would work on Windows Phone software. Specifically, the listing claims that "this is a great time to join as we’re completing our current release are getting ready for our next release targeting the holiday of this year."

"Next release" does not give us much in terms of features or any other details, but we'd expect the update to be a major one, since Windows Phone 8 was launched in October 2012, and the previous major update, Windows Phone 7.5, was released in September 2011.

According to earlier reports, the next WP release, codenamed "Windows Phone Blue," should bring both kernel updates and user-interface improvements.

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