Windows Phone

November 6, 2013

The Windows Phone developer team has been proactively working with third-party development tool vendors to ensure that their developers can take advantage of the monetization opportunities and global user base on the Windows platforms.

November 4, 2013

If you like to watch shows on Fox, now you can catch them on the go with the FOX NOW, the free Windows Phone 8 app. FOX NOW offers plenty of viewing choices, such as well-established favorites like “The Simpsons,” “American Idol” and “Bones” to newer shows such as “The Mindy Project,” “New Girl” and “Sleepy Hollow.”

November 1, 2013

On Friday, Huawei provided new details on the rollout of the Ascend W2, a colorful and competitively-priced new addition to the company’s Windows Phone 8 lineup.

October 28, 2013

In this free Windows Phone game, your goal is to steer a little ink droplet through the vast blueprints of a complex machine. It’s more challenging than you think, maneuvering that little droplet to attach to some surfaces and leap to others, while also trying to evade numerous traps.

October 25, 2013

Mobile gaming wouldn’t be the same without Electronic Arts, known for hits like “Bejeweled Live +,” “The Sims Freeplay” and “Contre Jour.” Now, we’ve brought more than 30 of those classic and cutting-edge Xbox games for Windows Phone together in one place in The EA Mobile Experience Collection.

October 25, 2013

Windows Phone apps can be made available in 191 markets and we’ve seen great adoption of Windows Phone in many different languages. In fact, the Windows Phone app market in China is bigger than it is in the U.S.

October 23, 2013

Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) is a power-efficient way for developers to send data to a Windows Phone app from a cloud service. This blog post by Austin Laugesen, a program manager on the Windows Phone team, gives recommended practices that can help you tune your service to work well with MPNS.