Windows Phone 'Mango' upgrade rollout nears completion, gets update on top of it

The Windows Phone "Mango" upgrade rollout continued last night as users of the the Samsung Focus 1.4 on AT&T began to receive updates. Now nearly complete, this upgrade has taken only two months to finish and includes half of all the Windows Phones across the globe.

Given Microsoft's position of simply being the software provider and licenser, and the fact that these upgrades span multiple OEMs and multiple global carriers, this upgrade has been carried out with remarkable speed.

And the near-complete Mango rollout is being met with yet another widespread update.

"We’re also sending out another wave of firmware updates from our manufacturers to select Windows Phone models," said Eric Hautala, GM of Windows Phone Customer Experience Engineering on Thursday. "Customers of Vodafone, Orange, and Deutsche Telekom in Europe will start seeing notifications for a new Windows Phone service release called 7740 that fixes an issue with new voice mail notifications not appearing for customers on some European and Asian networks under certain conditions. It also fixes an email issue associated with Exchange Server 2003. This service release is being assessed by other mobile operators."

The update fixes an email threading issue related to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. With this fix, the original text in forwarded messages and messages that have been replied to are now included >in the way you'd expect them to be included.

It also fixes a voicemail notification display issue that occured on some European and Asian networks under "certain conditions."