Microsoft yesterday released an API mapping tool for Android developers. This looks to be an effort from the company to support development of applications for Windows Phone 7. The tool enables ...

In an effort to support development of applications for Windows Phone 7, Microsoft today released an API mapping tool for Android developers. The tool enables developers to look up Android API calls ...

Trying to coax Android developers to port over their apps to Windows Phone, Microsoft releases a new tool and other resources in hopes of making the process a bit smoother. Lance Whitney Contributing ...

In April, Microsoft released an API mapping tool to help those familiar with iOS development code for its Windows Phone 7 platform. At the time we openly asked why the company hadn’t built the tool to ...

It’s been said a thousand times in a thousand ways: a smartphone operating system is only as good as the developers and third-party applications supporting it. Platforms that aren’t iOS or Android are ...

Microsoft is trying to lure iOS developers into creating applications for the Windows Phone 7 operating system by offering an API mapping tool which helps them port their applications over from the ...

Just two months after delivering a tool to help developers port iPhone apps to Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is adding Android support to it. On June 9, Microsoft announced it is adding Android support ...

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While Apple has vaunted to a leadership position in mobile computing with its iPhone smartphone, Microsoft is looking to chip away at Apple’s dominance, releasing on Friday an API tool intended to ...

Microsoft is ramping up both consumer and developer support for its Windows Phone platform in preparation for their Mango update. Earlier today, they kicked off new one-cent deals for HTC Windows ...