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 ...

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There actually was a time when Microsoft essentially owned the term “smartphone.” Of course, those of us who struggled with those early silver slabs with candy-dot keypads didn’t find them all too ...

Microsoft released developer tools for Windows Phone 7 Series a few days ago, complete with an emulator that you could use to test out new apps designed for the platform. But if you downloaded the ...