On Monday, Microsoft announced the Windows Phone Developer Tools beta, the "near final version" of the tools required to build apps and games for Windows Phone 7 ...

The man in charge of Microsoft’s latest mobile operating system, which many see as the company’s last chance to stake a claim in the increasingly pivotal smartphone software market, has quit the ...

Windows Phone developers have a new home – the revamped Windows Phone Dev Center, announced today via Redmond's developers blog. The updated site was born out of the retired App Hub developer portal.

Microsoft unveiled its Windows Phone Dev Center, the successor to its now-retired App Hub portal for developers targeting Windows Phone users. And according to WMPoweruser, the company is also set to ...

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 ...

Developers have download more than 300,000 copies of the development tools for Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 in what the vendor is touting as a harbinger of the potential success of the new ...

Australian independent outfit Halfbrick has hailed Windows Phone 7 as “the next big mobile platform”, days after the studio discovered its Fruit Ninja game has topped the mobile’s games chart. The ...

Microsoft announced a set of tools intended to make Windows Phone development easier, including for “first time developers”, against a backdrop of criticism about the platform’s app catalogue. It came ...

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 ...

Marmalade is giving away free licences for its SDK to any developer that uses its tools to build Windows Phone 8 games. The deal encourages independent developers to use the free trial of Marmalade to ...

Just like that, the second holiday season for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform has come and gone without the mobile OS making a name for itself. Windows Phone continues to hover somewhere in the ...