Hi! I’m Kami LeMonds, merchandising manager for the Windows Phone Store. My team has the awesome job of selecting the apps we promote every day in the Windows Phone Stores across the globe. Many of you have inquired about how we select the apps we promote...

This blog post was authored by Mini Nair, a program manager on the Visual Studio team. - Jonathan Mobile phone users expect the apps running on their phones to perform well at all times and be of super quality. A slow startup or a jerky UI is...

This blog post was authored by Mike O'Malley, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Adam One of our main goals of the new Windows Phone map control is the seamless integration across our platform. Our users should expect to have...

This blog post was authored by Thomas Fennel, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Adam Flip , Cycle , and Iconic —you hear them in your sleep calling your name, don't you? Those are the beautiful Live Tile templates you can...

Today we are releasing the Windows Phone SDK Update for Windows Phone 7.8 , an optional update that adds two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images to your existing SDK installation. These two emulator images should enable you to fully test how your Windows...

As part of the "App to the future" challenge (see details at the end of the post) we’ve conducted Lightning Design Review sessions for a few weeks, and one thing struck me as I was watching: review after review, I could clearly identify some recurring...

This blog post was authored by Rahul Bagaria, a program manager on the Windows Phone developer tools team. - Jonathan Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives, and we increasingly rely on them. With our phones we play games, check email,...

If you currently have a Windows Phone 7.x app that you’re thinking about updating to take advantage of Windows Phone 8 functionality, you have some decisions to make about support for your existing Windows Phone 7.x apps. To better serve your needs, the...

Hi folks, I’m Emilio Salvador Prieto. I manage the Windows Phone Developer Experience team. We work alongside our technical teams to help you get what you need to be successful -- things like developer features in the OS and Windows Phone Store, along...

That’s right – we’ve cooked up something very big for developers in 2013. I’ll fill you in on the details in a moment. By now you’ve probably noticed that for Windows Phone 8 we’ve deployed an all-new infrastructure focused on creating a great experience...

In Windows Phone 8, Microsoft introduced the Kid’s Corner feature that lets parents configure a separate Start screen for their children and populate it with only the apps, games, and content that they feel is appropriate. Because some features of the...