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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 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.

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's vision of Android, as seen in the Surface Duo and Surface Duo 2, is a world away from the flagship smartphone experience. Why is that important to users and reviewers of the dual ...

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 CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the latest of the “tough choices” Microsoft is making to streamline its business, and it’s a doozy: the company is significantly cutting back its ...