Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8.1, the first major update to the Windows Phone mobile operating system, introduces a virtual personal assistant named Cortana, several cool design tweaks, and a host of new ...

Windows Phone 8, which Microsoft partially unveiled this week, is the company’s third version of its mobile OS. And for some experienced Windows Phone developers, Microsoft got it all right. (PICTURES ...

The developer chief for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform has resigned to start his own company. Charlie Kindel had been a Microsoft employee for 21 years. In a blog post on Monday, he said his new ...

Hoping to generate more apps for its mobile platform, Microsoft has launched an online tool that could allow even non-developers to create new programs for Windows Phone 8. The tool, called Windows ...

Developers have download more than 300,000 copies of the development tools for Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 in what the vendor is touting as a harbinger of the potential success of the new ...

While being part of the world's big tech, Microsoft is not notable for its smartphone development, and this was because the company did not focus on this venture and eventually gave up, its CEO Satya ...

Microsoft released the Windows Phone 7 OS to manufacturing on Sept. 1, and its OEM partners are in the process of testing it on handsets. The Windows Phone 7 developer tools are the final piece of the ...

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If 2012 is to be the year Windows Phone bursts into the mainstream, it can hardly be ideal for Microsoft that Brandon Watson one of the platform's senior directors has left for pastures new at Amazon.