Windows Phone

Microsoft warns users who haven't upgraded to Windows 7.5 "Mango" that they will be unable to download apps from Marketplace until they do.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has professed his love for the Windows Phone operating system.

MWC 2012 Microsoft is going after the cash-strapped smartphone segment with its newly relaxed, less specification-demanding Windows Phone Tango build.

Microsoft has revealed some new information about its upcoming Windows Phone Tango update, explaining that the new software will come to phones this April but will still be badged as Windows 7.5.

Updated After the major update of the Windows Phone operating system last year in the form of Mango, it looks like Microsoft is readying the next instalment of its mobile OS.

Using Bing will help Windows Phone users search for digital versions of magazine and newspaper articles with its new Bing Image Matching for Newspapers feature.

Screenshots of Microsoft's Windows Phone Tango update have surfaced online providing us with more details on the latest version.

Exclusive A leaked video might have already outed the fact four new form factors will be coming to Windows Phone designs, but it seems Microsoft may have already revealed how these will look.

Microsoft, while never exactly seen as playing at the top end of the smartphone climbing frame, has confirmed that Windows Phone is not competing with other mobile devices on a spec-for-spec basis.

CES 2012 Ballmer on stage with Elop at Nokia Lumia 900 launch