Should You Install Windows 10 for Phone Technical Preview on Your Primary Phone

You might want to call it Windows 10 for Phone or Windows Mobile Technical Preview, but as wet close to release time of the unified platform from Microsoft, it’s very important to sit and think if you would want to install it on your phone or not. Here are few of the concerns I have thought about.

Its going to be Buggy & It’s not for your Primary Phone:

First thing you should note that this is not a developer preview. This is exactly what Microsoft has done on Windows 10 PC version, where consumers can either upgrade or install it separately to test and send feedback. However, for phones it will be different. You cannot dual boot it. The only way to try is to upgrade, but unlike Desktop version, Microsoft will make sure you get to upgrade to final version as well.

There will be bugs, which is why Microsoft calls it TP. There are chances where some features won’t work partially or completely. If you install this on your primary phone, this could get you in trouble. The best is to install it on an old phone, and use both the phones.

There may be a Rollback, but we don’t know yet:

Windows 10 Technical Preview January update enabled a Roll Back option in the boot menu. The same can be expected for the phone also, though implementation will be different, which would be extremely useful. As a matter of fact Gabriel Aul, Engineering General Manager for the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, said in this tweet:

@talkinglumia@andycoydwilson We’ll share more details later, but ability to rollback if you hit an issue is very important to us.

The biggest problem apart from this being confirmed, we don’t know how this will be implemented. If its going to be through your PC or option in the phone itself.

Not all the Apps will Work:

One of the biggest changes Microsoft is doing with Windows 10 is making all the existing apps a universal app. Framework is change at many places, and your favourite app might not work, unless developer updates it. Now if there is a favourite apps of yours which stops working, it will be really annoying.

Conclusion: Wait for Initial Feedback

If you have a spare phone, which can be upgraded to Technical Preview, go ahead. If not, wait for some initial feedback from the community, bloggers and influencers. This will help you get an idea if you should be upgrading.

What will you do?