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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If 2012 is to be the year Windows Phone bursts into the mainstream, it can hardly be ideal for Microsoft that Brandon Watson one of the platform's senior directors has left for pastures new at Amazon.

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 ...

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 ...