Before Microsoft shipped the Surface Duo with Android, it was meant to run a custom version of Windows called Andromeda OS, built specifically for dual-screen devices. That plan was quietly scrapped ...

In 2018, Microsoft canceled plans to ship a new Windows-based OS designed from the ground up for a new dual-screen phone form factor, codenamed Andromeda. This special version of Windows would have ...

It's no secret that Nokia has bet its entire mobile future on the Windows Phones OS. The company needs a sizable number of consumers to switch from iOS and Android in order for Nokia to make it in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft's head of devices, Julie Larson-Green, has foretold of a future where there are no longer three different versions of Windows. "We have the Windows Phone OS. We have Windows RT and we have ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system will surpass Apple's iOS by 2015, new figures suggest. Statistics from analytical firm IHS suggest that Windows Phone-powered devices will account for 16.7% ...

After BlackBerry’s market share collapsed a couple years ago, Microsoft’s struggling Windows Phone became the new hope for people who didn’t want to see the mobile world split between only Apple’s iOS ...

Desperate times, desperate measures: the Times of India is reporting that Microsoft is starting to give its Windows Phone OS away to phone manufacturers for free. The report claims that two Indian ...

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Microsoft is trying to lure iOS developers into creating applications for the Windows Phone 7 operating system by offering an API mapping tool which helps them port their applications over from the ...