Category Archives: Developer

Windows Phone Developer Tools for Mango

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

The Windows Phone Developer web site highlights the initial public release of the Windows Phone Developer Tools for Mango. Microsoft today announces the immediate availability of our Windows Phone Developer Tools for Mango. Go get these tools now, and you … Continue reading →

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Paul Thurrott: PocketTech

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

My official app for Windows Phone 7 is now available! I wanted to call it Pocket Paul (“Is that a Paul in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?) but more prudent voices at Penton won that … Continue reading →

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Windows Phone at TechEd 2011

Posted on May 10, 2011 by

I’ll be in Atlanta next week for TechEd 2011, and looking over the schedule, I can see that there is going to be a lot of great Windows Phone information at the show. This includes both business (deployment/management) use cases … Continue reading →

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Microsoft helps iPhone developers transition to Windows Phone

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

Today, Microsoft announced a new tool called API Mapping that helps developers migrate their iPhone applications to Windows Phone. In addition to the tool, there’s a 90+ page Windows Phone 7 Guide for iPhone Application Developers and a multi-part video … Continue reading →

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Duh, winning

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Back when Windows Phone launched last fall, I was often asked how I thought the new platform would do in the market. And I would respond that Windows Phone needed to establish itself as the third most popular smart phone … Continue reading →

Posted in Developer, The Competition, Windows Phone | 21 Comments

What Microsoft is revealing about Windows Phone today

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

In advance of a proper article about all this, here are the high-level details of today’s Mango revelations at MIX’11: General info: Mango, or the “forthcoming release of Windows Phone,” will provide developers with more hardware capabilities, better browsing and … Continue reading →

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MIX’11 Group Live Blog: Day Two

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

Microsoft’s MIX’11 conference begins today! Join me, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Kip Kniskern, Rafael Rivera, Bob Stein and Long Zheng as we live blog the day two keynote address. The event starts at 9 am PT/12 pm ET. And … Continue reading →

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Microsoft reveals Windows Phone 7 sessions at MIX’11

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

Most of these were previously marked as “TBD” but the MIX’11 session titles are live now, giving some hints about what to expect from Mango: Application Design for Windows Phone XNA Game Studio for Fun, Profit, Danger, Excitement and Windows … Continue reading →

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Live from MIX’11, its Windows Phone

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

I’ll be flying to Las Vegas this evening to attend MIX’11, the latest rendition of Microsoft’s web and mobile developer show. There should be a lot of interesting information coming out of the show, but of particular interest to readers … Continue reading →

Posted in Developer, Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE | 21 Comments

Windows Phone and the numbers that matter

Posted on March 31, 2011 by

You have to believe that any time the Windows Phone team decides to blog about even the most innocuous of topics these days, I’m reading very carefully and looking between the lines where possible. And it’s hard to say this … Continue reading →

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