Microsoft had been testing Your Phone as part of the company’s upcoming Redstone 5 update for Windows 10, but it now appears it will be made broadly available without the requirement for a ...

Microsoft is also making changes to Windows 10 on the desktop to include light and dark themes that match the phone and tablet editions. Currently referred to as Windows Mobile and Windows 10 ...

Microsoft’s voice search assistant Cortana is a refreshing presence on the Lumia 950, as on earlier Windows phones and more recently on Windows 10 computers.

Microsoft is killing off its Windows Phone brand, which has languished in the mobile market for the last five years. In its place: Windows 10 Mobile, a reference to the original name of its ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone was many things to many people. ... (but one way) upgrade to Windows 10. Unlike Windows Phone, users are not going to be left in a restricted system.

Microsoft also said that it had to downgrade or limit some features, including Cortana, which in the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phone is just a U.S.-only, English-only feature.

Microsoft did offer Windows 10 Mobile to some Windows Phone 8.1 devices last year and an even narrower subset received the Windows 10 Creators Update in April.. Despite Microsoft appearing to have ...

So even though Microsoft publicly never mentioned Windows Phone 8.1 GDR2, many were wondering where it is in 2015. Indeed, we were the first to report that Windows Phone 8.1 was to get two ...

Microsoft has released two test builds so far of Windows 10 Mobile for Windows Phones. The latest release was on April 10.That build was the first to include the new Microsoft browser formerly ...

According to Microsoft, while Windows 10 was created to run on existing phones as much as new devices, that doesn't mean all will be eligible for the new OS. "Windows 10 has been designed to run ...

Microsoft 's Windows Phone finished 2014 with only 3% of the global smartphone market, compared to 82% for Google Android and 14% for Apple iOS,.