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 ...

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 ...

In a recent interview on his time as Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella reflected on the challenges and complexities behind the company's decision to discontinue Windows Phone and the mistakes the company ...

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 ...

Nokia and Microsoft are currently organising a European roadshow to provide training on their various Windows Phone development tools. Included in the training will be sessions on Metro UI Creation, ...

Here's a rundown of the good news -- and bad -- about Windows Phone 7 and what will likely lay in store for corporate IT departments Sometime in the next few weeks, Microsoft will reveal features, ...

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 ...