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 ...

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Can the news get any worse for Windows Phone 7? Charlie Kindel, general manager of the Windows Phone Developer Ecosystem, is leaving Microsoft to start his own company. Given that it’s vital for the ...

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 ...

The Windows Phone 7 Mango release, due this Fall, adds a lot to Microsoft’s mobile OS, say a group of enterprise mobile programmers. A trio of Windows Phone software developers say Microsoft’s Mango ...

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 ...

Just like that, the second holiday season for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform has come and gone without the mobile OS making a name for itself. Windows Phone continues to hover somewhere in the ...

While Apple has vaunted to a leadership position in mobile computing with its iPhone smartphone, Microsoft is looking to chip away at Apple’s dominance, releasing on Friday an API tool intended to ...