Microsoft on Wednesday is expected to launch Version 8.1 of its Windows Phone platform at its annual Build developers conference, and that move will be followed later in the day by a separate Nokia ...

After BlackBerry’s market share collapsed a couple years ago, Microsoft’s struggling Windows Phone became the new hope for people who didn’t want to see the mobile world split between only Apple’s iOS ...

In a Monday blog post, Scott Barnes, a former Microsoft product manager for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, and now a user experience specialist with Melbourne, Australia-based ...

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 Windows Phone operating system will surpass Apple's iOS by 2015, new figures suggest. Statistics from analytical firm IHS suggest that Windows Phone-powered devices will account for 16.7% ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced 1,500 new developer tools coming in May for the next version of the Windows Phone operating system, code-named Mango, that’s due in the fall. Officials highlighted a ...

Last September, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 in public for the first time. One glance at the operating-system upgrade–heavily influenced by the company’s inventive Windows Phone–was enough to tell ...

Mobile advertising firm Amobee has announced its new advertising unit for the Windows Phone OS. The User Generated Ad (UGA) will be a Live Tile, which allows consumers to determine the ads they want ...