In 2010 Microsoft's smartphone share was just 4.2 percent. With the arrival of Android, Symbian's market share evaporated and RIM (later BlackBerry) would also find the competition too hot, ...

By the time the company released its first real modern smartphone OS – Windows Phone 7 – Microsoft’s overall share had shrunk to a fraction of what it was in 2005.

Last week's showcase event by Microsoft demonstrated Windows 10 in many form factors. The most interesting to me was the demonstration of the new OS running on the Lumia 1520 smartphone. Microsoft ...

NEW YORK — Smartphones are the new PCs. Especially for younger people, they are the devices upon which important communications are made, documents are viewed and, in some instances, even created.

Microsoft is not getting out of the smartphone business, at least not entirely. However, the company is dramatically changing its approach to the market with the news today that it will be cutting ...

Microsoft all but exits smartphone hardware with new $950M charge and 1,850 more job cuts. by Todd Bishop on May 25, 2016 at 7:01 am May 25, 2016 at 9:02 am.

Microsoft makes the Surface and Surface Pro devices while simultaneously encouraging third-party manufacturers to create their own Windows tablets. By contrast, the smartphone division responsible ...

Microsoft maintains big ambitions for Office, Bing, Skype and its other apps, but it's minimizing a once heady quest to get vast numbers of people to use the software on Windows smartphones.

Microsoft wants to be known as the people's smartphone company. The software giant said on Monday that it had lowered the minimum requirements to build a Windows Phone, a move that allows vendors ...

Running Windows 11 on a smartphone could pave the way for hybrid devices that blur the line between traditional computers and phones. For those willing to experiment, ...

Microsoft makes a few phones that are even cheaper, like the Lumia 520, which Microsoft has said before was the best-selling Windows product on the planet, period.

The first step to running Windows 10 on your smartphone is to create a QCOW2 of the Windows version you want to use. QCOW stands for QEMU Copy On Write, and it's a disk image format used by QEMU ...