Windows Phone

This is it! What you've all been waiting for: your first look at Windows Phone 7. Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Program Management Joe Belfiore gives us a full demo of the announcements being made today at Mobile World Congress, including: The new user experience Integration with…

This introductory session covers the Windows Phone 7 Overview, the Developer and the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, options, how to become a developer, setting up your system, and an intro to creating Windows Phone applications.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers…

ScriptTD is an open source project that allows anyone to easily create a new Tower Defense game for the Windows Phone 7 platform, without any prior programming knowledge. The project lets you create new art & audio and edit some XML files to bring it all together into a polished game without…

This session is where the coding begins. Andy and Rob walk through building your first application with Microsoft Silverlight. It includes responding to event controls, Windows themes and styles, and customizing text input.The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers…

Windows 8 is designed to be cloud-powered, so it comes with Metro style apps for communication, sharing, scheduling, photos, and videos. Preview versions of these apps come installed with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and include Mail, Calendar, People, Photos, Messaging, and SkyDrive.…

The Next App Star is a four month promotion delivered to you by the Windows Phone team culminating in a tournament-style app contest that will help to improve our robust, unique app catalog and will help show developers that there is great opportunity in Windows Phone. Learn all about the contest in…

Congratulations, Rudy Huyn!  Your app Wikipedia is Windows Phone Next App Star.  Over 9,000 apps were entered from developers in 79 countries.  We were amazed at the quality and breadth of the competition.  Way to go, Rudy!

Jerry Nixon welcomes Niels Hilmar to the show as they discuss the Windows 8 app development opportunity that is open for anyone who has a great idea for an app. Tune in as they discuss the first-mover advantage, what free tools and resources are available as well as the upcoming App Builder Virtual…

This year at MIX 11 Windows Phone 7 made some big news. In this video, CVP Joe Belfiore goes over the headlines and gives us several demo's to show off the new capabilities such as advanced searching for apps, phone integration, live agents, multi-tasking and a REALLY cool demo of Layar.

What an incredible week for Microsoft!  Laura and Paul muse on the hottest stories Microsofties are pinging each other about... and the stories aren't any hotter than on our first two: Microsoft Surface Windows Phone 8 Platform Revealed Xbox SmartGlass SDK Bing Image Search Refresh ... for…