The documents, which appear to originate from within Microsoft, describe the Windows Phone Application Platform, a mobile application development environment that's designed to support "consumer ...

Microsoft released the Windows Phone 7 OS to manufacturing on Sept. 1, and its OEM partners are in the process of testing it on handsets. The Windows Phone 7 developer tools are the final piece of the ...

The Windows Phone Developer Tools have been downloaded more than 300,000 times, Microsoft said, as the company prepares to offer a new application store and mobile operating system. Microsoft is ...

Making a critical move in mobile application development, Microsoft on Monday shipped a beta version of its Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, but early reaction from some developers was tepid. The beta ...

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 ...

Microsoft has unveiled an overhauled Windows Phone Dev Center in response to "developer feedback", splitting the platform from its Xbox hub for the first time. The relaunched Dev Center comes after ...

With Microsoft Colombia having confirmed Windows Phone 7.8 the last major update to the original Windows Phone 7 platform will begin to roll out at the end of January, the US giant has now pushed the ...

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 ...

Microsoft has launched a developer build of its Windows Phone 8.1 mobile operating system earlier than expected. The US release includes the Siri-esque virtual assistant Cortana and is available to ...

Just two months after delivering a tool to help developers port iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is adding Android support to it. On June 9, Microsoft announced it is adding Android support ...

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 ...