These missing features have held back some rival developers, and even meant that big apps like Skype have had to wait until the Windows Phone 7.5 release to take advantage of essential APIs.

Millions of mobile developers looking to build or port apps to the Windows Phone platform can find and discover pre-built app components, popular open source projects, and software development ...

Consequently, he points out, the Windows Mobile Marketplace actually predates Apple’s App Store. The Marketplace is finally coming to Windows Mobile devices near you on October 6th.

The biggest mobile developer study in history with 6,000 respondents from 115 countries says that while iOS developers make an average of $5,200 per month in app revenue and Android developers ...

Even if Microsoft does everything right—liberal app policies, a generous developer revenue share, a powerful SDK, and smooth, wide phone rollout—Windows Phone 7 might not catch up with its ...

Developers can now create the apps they originally dreamed of with Windows Phone, and the push from Windows 8 may spark consumer interest in Microsoft’s phone offering.

Even with Microsoft's incentives, some developers are still reluctant to write apps for Windows Phone, considering it a lower priority, at least for now. Microsoft and Nokia are both hoping for ...

Hoping to generate more apps for its mobile platform, Microsoft has launched an online tool that could allow even non-developers to create new programs for Windows Phone 8.

Universal apps in Visual Studio 2013 support only Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1, but developer tools vendor Xamarin uses the same approach to support iOS and Android with its cross-platform C# ...

Microsoft started with 100,000 apps when Windows Phone 8 launched, but has not provided any data around how many have been downloaded, how include in-app purchases, or have a price tag.