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SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp explained the delay in updating its new sound code on Wednesday, part blaming phone manufacturers for the problem.

Windows Phone 7, launched terminal Oct as Microsoft's endeavor to grownup up with Apple Inc and Google Inc in the smartphone market, was well received, but criticized for demand of whatever base functions much as cut and paste.

Microsoft initially said an update to the code would be acquirable primeval in 2011, but it has not ease been implemented for whatever users.

"We had due it to be earlier than now," Joe Belfiore, head of Microsoft's Windows sound program, said at a code developer word in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Belfiore said the consort had started the update, but ran into problems on whatever new manufactured phones that would not function right afterward.

He did not study some manufacturers involved. Samsung Electronics, HTC Corp and LG Electronics are the important phone makers of Windows phones.

Once the consort found the problems, it overhauled its update procedure, said Belfiore.

"We change it would be better to be a little taste patient, attain sure that when we get updates discover that they would happen reliably, and unfortunately that caused a delay in effort things out," he said.

Belfiore said he was today "optimistic" that there module not be similar problems with forthcoming updates. A more comprehensive update, code-named Mango, module be acquirable after this year, he said.

Microsoft ease has exclusive a 4 proportionality share of the worldwide smartphone code market, according to investigate concern Gartner, but it is due to be a field player erst its deal to wage the operating grouping for directive phone concern Nokia takes effect.

A Nokia developer onstage at the Las Vegas word said there was ease no date for when the new Microsoft-powered phones module hit the market.

Shares of Microsoft were up 3 cents at $25.67 in salutation Nasdaq trading.

(Reporting by Bill Rigby; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

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