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Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up?

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In message <d4mgpuF2e29U1@mid.individual.net>, at 20:40:30 on Tue, 1 Sep 
2015, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> remarked:

>> So while it can be updated with normal Microsoft security patches, if we
>> regard Win7 as a "patch" for Vista (in the same way Lollipop is a patch
>> for KitKat) then it's hard work to upgrade. The manufacturer produced
>> files for Win7, but you have to download and install them by hand. They
>> haven't developed files for Win8.0 and later.
>
>  What you're describing for Windows - i.e. Vista to 8[.1] - are
>upgrades, not patches. And yes, *unlike* for Android, you get those
>upgrades from the *OS* developer, not from the *device* manufacturer.

I can't get them from the OS developer because they don't run properly 
(all the special support for my laptop is missing).

>N.B. The issue of the device manufacturer not supporting newer OS
>versions on their hardware is (more or less) the same for Windows and
>Android, with the exception that the (software upgradability) lifetime
>of an Android device is much, much, shorter.

When I put an android upgrade on one of my tablets it came from a third 
party (although I don't know who built the update).
-- 
Roland Perry

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Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2015-08-11 11:07 -0400
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2015-08-11 15:41 +0000
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roger Mills <watt.tyler@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:09 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-08-11 17:32 +0000
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-08-11 15:13 -0500
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-08-12 07:16 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-11 20:38 +0100
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? "Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> - 2015-08-12 22:42 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-18 21:28 +0100
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 08:55 +0100
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 09:13 +0100
  Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@null.com> - 2015-08-11 15:11 -0500
    Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-12 20:03 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Moe DeLoughan <moe@notmine.null> - 2015-08-17 13:47 -0500
        Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-17 19:43 +0000
          Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-01 09:47 +0100
            Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-01 20:40 +0000
              Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2015-09-02 07:45 +0100
                Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-02 17:51 +0000
      Re: Has Your Nexus Device Patch Showed Up? Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2015-08-18 23:38 +0000

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