All apps must run via the Silverlight or XNA environments, Microsoft says; Adobe says it's porting Flash to the new mobile OS Microsoft confirmed Monday at the company’s Mix 10 developers event that ...

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 ...

Before Microsoft shipped the Surface Duo with Android, it was meant to run a custom version of Windows called Andromeda OS, built specifically for dual-screen devices. That plan was quietly scrapped ...

Claiming that tablets should be considered personal computers rather than new age mobile devices, Microsoft on Tuesday again dashed hopes of tablets running the company's new mobile operating system, ...

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 ...

Software makers tend to break a few eggs whenever upgrading from one operating system to another. Some Windows 98 apps didn’t function properly with Windows XP. And while many Windows Mobile 2003 apps ...

With less restrictions than Apple’s iOS and other competitors, Android is the easiest mobile OS for app development. Thus, Microsoft is looking to capitalize on that fact with a new API mapping tool ...

Windows Mobile and Windows CE devices have been pretty hacker-friendly since the get-go. Windows Phone 7, on the other hand, isn’t. Microsoft is insisting that developers use Silverlight and XNA to ...

Keeping true to their promise to have Windows Phone 7 devices out in time for the holiday season, Microsoft is getting ready to realase development tools to the public. The gold build will be released ...

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 ...