In 2018, Microsoft canceled plans to ship a new Windows-based OS designed from the ground up for a new dual-screen phone form factor, codenamed Andromeda. This special version of Windows would have ...

Before Microsoft shipped the Surface Duo with Android, it was meant to run a custom version of Windows called Andromeda OS, built specifically for dual-screen devices. That plan was quietly scrapped ...

It's no secret that Nokia has bet its entire mobile future on the Windows Phones OS. The company needs a sizable number of consumers to switch from iOS and Android in order for Nokia to make it in the ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system will surpass Apple's iOS by 2015, new figures suggest. Statistics from analytical firm IHS suggest that Windows Phone-powered devices will account for 16.7% ...

Microsoft's head of devices, Julie Larson-Green, has foretold of a future where there are no longer three different versions of Windows. "We have the Windows Phone OS. We have Windows RT and we have ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, the name “Windows” stood for something. Several things, actually. It was (and is) the world’s dominant personal computer operating system–a huge, powerful, feature-rich, messy, often ...

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