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 ...

When Windows Phone 7 devices arrive this holiday season, they will be diving into crowded U.S. consumer waters full of CrackBerry addicts and iPhone fans. But it's not as if Windows Mobile is a ...

Windows Phone 7 is the worst OS ever created. Every single feature of Windows Phone 7 has failed. The interface looks pretty at first glance, with notifications, but on closer inspection you realize ...

In a Monday blog post, Scott Barnes, a former Microsoft product manager for Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, and now a user experience specialist with Melbourne, Australia-based ...

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 ...

With Windows Mobile leaving Microsoft with an almighty hangover, Windows Phone 7 already had a steep hill to climb. However, the assertion by InfoWorld's Galen Gruman that Microsoft should pack up its ...

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 ...

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 ...

After weeks of confusion and uncertainty, PocketGamer.biz can report Windows Phone 7.8 is finally making its way to Windows Phone 7 devices, with Nokia's Lumia range the first to benefit. As we speak, ...

Microsoft will launch Windows Phone 7 on Oct. 11 at an event in New York, according to a report on the Pocket-lint Web site. Pocket-lint, which publishes gadget news and reviews, cited multiple ...

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 ...