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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has today responded to a minor outcry in the Windows Phone development community over a set of emails that had been sent out, informing developers that their accounts on App Hub (the WP7 ...

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 ...