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Microsoft may be merging Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 "Apollo" by using the MinWin stack. Source: Yahoo! News

Microsoft's Windows Phone leader Andy Lees is being moved out of his existing role to work on a special cross-platform project, a leaked memo uncovered Monday. CEO Steve Ballmer told staff that Lees was working on a special project for next year that ZDNet understood would involve Microsoft...

I have a phone which I occasionally use (tethered) as my internet connection upstairs. It all works fine and dandy on my laptop (win 7 32) and it used to work on my PC until I messed it up, after it failed and I tried to install drivers for it. it went badly wrong and I tried loads of drivers...

Windows Phone "Mango" includes a lot of cool, exciting new features that users will be showing to all of their friends. Of course, there are some features so behind the scenes that users will never really be aware of them—but developers will. One such new feature is the addition of "SQL Compact"...

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Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at: Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Link Removed Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks! Link Removed...

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: Steve Marx* - Playing with the new Windows Azure Storage Analytics features Laurent Bugnion - Automated Installer for MVVM Light v3 and v4 Beta 1 coming by the end of August Davide Zordan - Multi-touch...

ScriptTD is an open source project that allows anyone to easily create a new Tower Defense game for the Windows Phone 7 platform, without any prior programming knowledge. The project lets you create new art & audio and edit some XML files to bring it all together into a polished game without...

In this episode, Corrina continues the Design Tips miniseries by sharing her insights on how to create tiles and splash screens for Windows Phone applications. She walks through the process of creating an icon in Expression Design and how to make tiles look good and quickly mesh with Metro...

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Tuesday praised the widespread adoption of his company’s desktop operating system, saying it has now sold more than 400 million Windows 7 licenses. However, Ballmer acknowledged Microsoft’s struggles in the mobile phone market, where the company’s...

Hot Apps will feature 5 of the hottest apps each week for the Windows Phone 7. In this episode Laura takes a look at: Angry Birds Hungry Pigs Mosaic by Tribune MTV News Pirates Assault Please leave suggestions for hot apps that should be featured in the comments section, thanks! Link Removed...

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Microsoft kicked off their annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles today. CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage for the opening keynote to boast the company’s Windows 7 accomplishments and to discuss a variety of other Microsoft products, including XBox, Bing, Windows 8, and Windows...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened the 2011 WPC in Los Angeles with a broad-based discussion of everything from Windows 8 to the Skype acquisition. Link Removed

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trove (www.trove.com), a free personalized news aggregation service from The Washington Post Company, today launches an app for the Windows Phone and for Windows 7 tablet devices. With its launch on Windows mobile products, Trove is now available on nearly every...

Trove , a free personalized news aggregation service from The Washington Post Company, today launches an app for the Windows Phone and for Windows 7 tablet devices. With its launch on Windows mobile products, Trove is now available on nearly every mobile platform. More...

# featureddesktop We've seen Windows Phone 7 desktop s before, which is stylistically similar to what Microsoft has us expecting in Windows 8 , but when it's done this well it's worth repeating. Reader The Royal Rebel took Windows 7 and made it to look like Windows 8 with a few stylistic touches...

There have been a lot of positive reviews of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 OS release, code named "Mango." This release is a big one. It contains over 500 new features, is full of improvements - from the core OS to the performance of UI scrolling - and "Mango" puts the user in control of almost...

CEBU, Philippines - Microsoft Philippines geared up to bring the Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system to the Philippine market in the form of two new devices, the LG Optimus 7 and the HTC 7 Mozart. Link Removed due to 404 Error

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian are back to discuss the week's top developer news, including: Chris Mayo: Link Removed, includes SharePoint, Workflow, Excel or Access Services, Lync and Exchange development IE Developer Blog: Internet Explorer 10 Link Removed (Link Removed) Windows Phone...