Engadget reports that the Nokia Lumia 900 is now available for pre-order at the Microsoft Store
After 16 years of trusty service, the venerable Windows CE will be history as far as Microsoft's mobile operating system offering goes - the next major version of Windows Phone will use the NT kernel from Windows 8.
The Nokia Lumia 710 has launched in the UK and is available from a number retailers and carriers
In response to circulating rumors regarding Windows Phone 8's lack of application backwards compatibility, Microsoft's Brandon Watson -- Director of Developer Experience -- confirmed today that the upcoming OS revision will run older Windows Phone 7 applications.
Nokia partnership will launch Microsoft's platform to second place in global smartphone market share, iSuppli forecasts.
Windows Phone is on the rise in France, as can be seen in the above browser share chart.
Microsoft has been careful to avoid publicising the cost to manufacturers of licensing the Windows Phone OS for each handset - but an executive from ZTE has now revealed the charge for each licence.
Microsoft failed to gain much ground in the mobile phone market in 2011, but its partners should help it grab a piece of the market this year.
Redmond needs to give mobile customers a more consistent update experience, regardless of hardware brand or carrier, users say.
The Lumia 900, a high-speed Windows Phone made for AT&T, made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday
Microsoft has two updates planned for its mobile platform next year, and its application store has a lot of apps.
The market share of Microsoft's mobile platform was just 1.5 percent in the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner figures.
Despite years of development and countless millions in marketing, Windows Phone 7 still has gained no traction with consumers.
Microsoft Research has released Face Swap over at the Windows Phone Marketplace that allows you to swap people's faces around in photographs.
Microsoft has released Windows Phone 7.5 Training Kit
Silicon Republic posted a story that Microsoft has said it is aware of the flaw that allows a malicious text message to disable the message hub on Window Phones and is investigating the issue.
TechRadar reports that NFC is already supported in Windows Phone
Engadget posted a story that Microsoft delays the launch of Windows Phone in China to the first half of 2012
InformationWeek posted a story that Verizon Wireless would be happier to sell Windows Phone devices if they had Long Term Evolution 4G.
WinRumors reports that Microsoft filed a motion in late November to dismiss a Windows Phone location lawsuit.
