Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often ...

Microsoft released developer tools for Windows Phone 7 Series a few days ago, complete with an emulator that you could use to test out new apps designed for the platform. But if you downloaded the ...

Yesterday Microsoft released a series of developer tools for Windows Phone 7 Series… including an emulator. And one of the intrepid hackers at xda-developers figured out how to extract the emulator ...

If you own a cell phone, chances are it's running iOS or Android. These two operating systems utterly dominate the market and are present on over 99% of phones currently in use worldwide. Beyond that, ...

Windows Phone was introduced by Microsoft as the successor to the Windows Mobile operating system at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Februrary 15, 2010, The first version being titled ...

It's been a decade since Microsoft effectively conceded defeat in the smartphone war, yet the ghost of Windows Phone continues to haunt the industry. Parts of the OS are still alive in the form of ...

Microsoft revealed this week at its Mix10 conference for Microsoft-oriented Web developers that its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile OS will not include a clipboard capability for copy-and-paste ...

Steve was a Senior Writer at AP, where he covered over 40 smartphones a year. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola StarTACs ...

Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 on Oct. 11 at an event in New York, according to a report on the Pocket-lint Web site. Pocket-lint, which publishes gadget news and reviews, cited multiple ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Microsoft just put the finishing touches on its new Windows Phone 7 operating system. To celebrate the birth of this new operating system, it ...