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 ...

At a Las Vegas conference, Microsoft shows how developers can write software for the new Windows Phone 7 Series devices, due out later this year. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried changed beats ...

Well, well — it looks like Apple isn’t the only phone-maker saying no-no to the naughty-naughty. Microsoft released the final version of its Windows Phone Developer Tools on Thursday, giving ...

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 ...

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 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, ...