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, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Gartner says that Microsoft operating systems appeared on 3.7 million smartphones sold in Q1 of 2011.The same report states, “Windows Phone saw only modest sales that reached 1.6 million units ...

Microsoft is not a force in phones and never has been. The software giant’s $7.6 billion write-off of its phone business makes it even less likely now that consumers will opt for its phones.

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, ...

When Microsoft announced earlier this year that it will launch an own-brand tablet to compete directly with its various vendor partners working on Windows 8-based on tablet PCs of their own, there ...