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 ...

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 ...

Word of the release of the tools came in a blog posted by Brandon Watson, director for Windows Phone 7. Developers will have to download the final version of the tools, Watson said, because any app ...

Microsoft’s App Studio beta test has been expanded to allow novice developers to build applications for Windows tablets and PCs, in addition to Windows Phone. The hosted service runs in a browser and ...

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 ...

Nokia’s Lumia 900 is a beautiful phone. Despite a few flaws, Techland’s own Jared Newman called it “the most noteworthy Windows Phone yet.” I haven’t had time to really get to know it, but a Microsoft ...