When we announced the availability of Mango for our registered developers a few weeks ago, we put out a call to student developers: show us a great prototype of your Windows Phone app idea and get a developer phone. So far, we’ve had a tremendous...

Last month, we released Beta 2 of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1 . Yesterday, Windows Phone Engineering CVP Terry Myerson announced Windows Phone OS RTM . Today, I’m excited to announce that we are offering a refresh of the beta tools to our registered...

We're getting close to being done with the OS portion of the development cycle for our upcoming Windows Phone release, codenamed ‘Mango!’ ‘Mango’ comes with significant new functionality for developers. This evolution of the application platform means...

This week marks another significant developer milestone on the path to the release of Mango and also gives me a chance to talk about where we’re headed. We know there’s tremendous excitement among the developer community, with tens-of-thousands of you...

Many of you have noticed that we’re in the process of refreshing App Hub. The roll out is on track, but there are still a few more tests to run before the updated App Hub experience is fully functional. I’ll be following up within the next 24 hours, once...

Last week we released Beta 2 of the Mango developer tools. Even more excitingly, we made pre-release images of the Mango OS for retail devices available to developers registered with App Hub. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to get started...