Microsoft has struggled to make Windows Phone a viable competitor in the mobile ecosystem for more than five years now. There have been some good devices running Windows Phone, but the lack of apps ...
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 ...
Remember how the Windows Mobile App Marketplace was going to let you share apps with up to five phones at no additional cost? Well, Microsoft has a very liberal definition of the word “sharing.” Turns ...
The year was 2010. Both iPhone and Android were gaining popularity, with the prospects of a duopoly emerging between Google and Apple. Microsoft had mostly abandoned its efforts to bring Windows to ...
Sometimes, a platform can die without actually dying. For example, a company can stop producing certain products but still ...
Nokia’s Lumia 900 is a beautiful phone. Despite a few flaws, Techland’s own Jared Newman called it “the most noteworthy Windows Phone yet.” I haven’t had time to really get to know it, but a Microsoft ...
It looks like the video-on-demand battle between Netflix and BlockBuster is spilling over to the handset space. We already know that Netflix is building a mobile app for Windows Phone 7 Series that ...