Sixty percent of Lumia users now have Lumia Cyan and 8.1 updates for Windows Phone

80% of India respondents are on Cyan, while only 47% of those in the The states tin can say the same

Microsoft had a big twenty-four hour period yesterday, finally releasing a new preview version of their 8.1.1 Windows Phone operating system. The update is merely for those using the popular Preview for Developers early on-access program. Likewise improving performance and fixing bugs, the update also unblocked the awaiting Lumia Cyan firmware for many more users, though not all. The question we were curious about is exactly how many of you are now on Lumia Cyan.

After ten thousand votes casts, we now take a definitive, if not surprising, answer.

Method

Yesterday's poll, which ran slightly less than 24-hours, nerveless x,039 votes past the time this article went to press. Echo votes are blocked by IP address matching or cookie, and an analysis of the IP logs confirmed this result. The poll was available on the web through either a PC or mobile browser.

Results

Equally of today, threescore.57% of those with a Lumia Windows Telephone are on Windows Phone eight.1 and the Lumia Cyan update. The other 39.43% of respondents are still waiting either for the cake to elevator or for their carrier to approve the update.

Assay

Is the threescore% number proficient or bad? Assuming all of those voting were actual Lumia owners and were truthful we tin can put the results into context.

Microsoft began pushing the Lumia Cyan update on a provisional basis back on June 25 for the Lumia 925 in Finland. However, the official outset was not announced until later on on July xv, when the update began to be pushed out globally. In the weeks following, the update started to trickle out to other Lumia models and regions around the globe, often coming in waves.

AT&T in the United states of america released Lumia Cyan on July 24 on their latest telephone, the Lumia 1520. Other AT&T Lumias in their portfolio were updated roughly every couple of weeks. AT&T now has Lumia Cyan on all of their Windows Phones, including the Lumia 520, Lumia 820, Lumia 920, Lumia 925, Lumia 1020, and Lumia 1520. Verizon and T-Mobile, however, have not yet initiated any updates for Lumia Cyan, leaving customers empty handed. Although in that location are a few other carriers around the globe who accept yet to roll out an update, T-Mobile and Verizon are certainly the well-nigh loftier profile laggards.

Considering US voters accounted for 34% of poll respondents, their inability to update to Cyan is conspicuously skewing our poll numbers lower. For those in the The states, 52.69% responded with 'no' to the Lumia Cyan question while 47.31%, presumably all AT&T users, said 'yes'. By comparison, 64.25% of those in the UK answered 'yep' to the question as did a hefty 80% of users in Republic of india.

Going past the July 15 date, Microsoft has reached sixty% of Lumia devices with the 8.ane and Cyan update in just over two months. On the confront of it, this is not a terrible number especially when compared to phones running the Android OS.

BitLocker and blocks

A mitigating factor, of course, is the 'BitLocker problem', which originated with some users of the Preview for Developers program bricking their phones when installing the Lumia Cyan update. This outcome was caught on July xvi, less than 24-hours afterward the declaration for Cyan. Microsoft immediately "paused" the update until a fix was in place.

Once once more, AT&T was the first with a set for their Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1020 at the stop of August, although most users globally did non encounter it until yesterday. (Users could scroll back the phone OS and have the total update to 8.ane, but this process involved wiping the device and is a scrap more technical).

While we cannot reliably cistron out the BitLocker-result from the Lumia Cyan updates, it is condom to say that had it not occurred our poll number would be higher. Too, if U.s. carriers were faster to release updates to consumers.

Considering Microsoft had a coating hold on Cyan for all Preview users for over 60 days that 60% number begins to look more confident.

When it comes to over-the-air updates, Apple tree and the iPhone have the most coveted deal whereby they tin give little notice to carriers who can rarely block an update. This ability results in universal adoption rates of an Os update within days, equally opposed to months. However, every bit yesterday's iOS eight.0.1 fiasco has demonstrated, even Apple tin run into bug. That eight.0.1 updates were supposed to set some small-scale bugs just instead it killed the phone'southward cellular radio and Touch ID fingerprint reader, frustrating users.

Microsoft evidently sits in the eye when information technology comes to delivering OS updates falling betwixt iOS and Android. Whereas iOS tin can update in days, for Windows Telephone it can span roughly three months for all devices.

Timing & Awareness

The larger problem for Microsoft is the perception of Windows Phone fans, because although Lumia Cyan updates did non begin until July xv, it was announced nearly three months earlier dorsum in Apr during Build 2022. This gap between announcing and getting it on to client phones, which for some users is nigh six months, is significantly longer, and it has no doubt contributed to the user resentment.

In the time to come, Microsoft may exist better served by announcing new firmware releases closer to their actual transport dates, instead of four or more months out.

Are you surprised past the poll results – why or why not? Let us know below in comments.

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