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The Microsoft Health App and Microsoft Band 2 received an update that adds manual weight entry, GPS battery saver and an NBA scores tile to the wearable device. The update is available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile. read more Continue reading...

This app will clear up space on your Windows Phone 8.1 device and check for any updates. read more Continue reading...

I'm an iPhone user. I've always loved the way WP looks though - the live tiles are the perfect solution to the problem of having a boring grid of icons (iPhone) and the absolute mess of non standard widgets (Android). But i'm still an iPhone user. I long for the day I can actually buy a...

Hello, I bought my child a Windows 10 tablet called Lint 810. It actually works very nice; I preferred it over Android tablets for a few reasons. However, my child got disappointed because he could not install a game called Shadowfight 2, which he saw his friends use on Android tablets. The...

Hi everyone, Today we are rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10581 to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. We’ve fixed the bug preventing upgrades from earlier builds. So if you stayed on Build 10536 or if you flashed back to Windows Phone 8.1 and then installed 10549 or 10572...

Here our choices for the week’s five best new apps for Surface and Windows phone. Now that both Lumia and Surface are being covered in the Microsoft Devices Blog, we are featuring apps for both devices in our weekly list. Most of these apps work on both, so try them out and see which one is...

Dev Center has now integrated the functionality previously available in pubCenter to simplify how to create, manage and track your Microsoft advertising ad impressions and revenue. In addition, Microsoft Advertising and Windows ad mediation have been merged into one single SDK, the Microsoft...

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Are you ready to discover our choices for this week’s five best apps for Windows Phone? Of course you are! Link Removed Grab your Lumia and prepare for download because we’ve rounded up the best new Windows Phone apps, updates and games of the week. We’ve been seeing many new apps rolling...

The video option on your Windows Phone isn’t the only way to capture the passage of time. Be creative and experiment with time-lapse photography. Oxforddictionaries.com defines time-lapse as: “the photographic technique of taking a sequence of frames at set intervals to record changes that...

Windows Phone users on HTC devices can reportedly use Microsoft's WDRT to restore their devices to Windows Phone 8.1. read more Continue reading...

One thing I am really having problems with is getting “Cortana” to function. I have a Toshiba is Qosmio X500-116 (only computer that I have upgraded to Windows 10), It has a built in Mic, I have changed the language to English US (I understand English UK version is not ready yet for running...

One of the questions I hear allot is how do you convert your Windows phone 8/8.1 Silverlight app into a Windows 10 UWP app? Is there a simple converter? No. But one is the works! Mobilize.NET, the company that brought us the cool WinForm to Web App product, WebMAP2 have just released a new...

Hi everyone, We’re rolling out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10536 right now to Windows Insiders on the Fast ring. You may have noticed it’s taken us a little longer than we would have liked to get a new build out to you – Link Removed on the delay. I am happy to say this build has...

This issue might for Lumia 1020 users to revert back to Windows Phone 8.1 until later this fall. read more Continue reading...

The unified Dev Center introduced several new options to manage the visibility of apps and in-app purchase. We have seen developers start to use these new capabilities and have sent us questions on how these options work in different operating systems, and how to manage betas in the new Dev...

Today we are excited to share that Microsoft Movies & TV1 now supports Disney Movies Anywhere. When you connect your Microsoft Movies & TV account with Disney Movies Anywhere, all of your eligible Disney, Disney•Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars digital movies currently in your Disney Movies Anywhere...

As the summer wraps up here are just 25 of the many videos, posts and episodes from last week... Link Removed C# 6 makes coding even easier. Watch how Link Removed guides the discussion by comparing previous approaches to common tasks with new ways introduced in version 6. Features covered...

One of the new libraries I've not blogged about enough (cough... at all... cough) is one that will help the C++ or C# dev create GPU accelerated 2D Windows Runtime apps on Windows 8.1/WinPhone 8.1 and Windows 10. Why haven't I blogged about it? Well, I hate the author... JUST KIDDING. No, I've...

Brand new phone out of the box yesterday.Virgin Media is my provider, phone is on O2. Trying to set my NTL world email up with no success, I just get a message saying it needs attention. Spent the morning online with O2. no success, this afternoon was with Virgin, no success, they pointed me in...