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 has taken a major step toward the public launch of Windows Phone 7. Today the company released the upcoming mobile operating system to manufacturing, which means that the OS is pretty much ...

Microsoft unveiled its plans for the next major update to Windows Phone 7 as the MIX11 developer conference. The so-called Mango update will be available this fall, and it will add support for ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Mitsubishi made your first cellphone, you know you’ve been around a while. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola ...

So I was looking at doing some development for WP7 and was shocked (shocked I tell ya) to discover that WP7 has only XML as a persistent storage system. Frankly this seems like a massive backwards ...