Microsoft Windows Phones

Apple, Android app makers cool to Microsoft overtures

To boost sales of its phones and new operating system, Microsoft said last month that it would provide tools to software developers to make it easier to design apps for Windows based on apps that run on Android or Apple

May 20, 2015, 11:27 AM IST

Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions

Microsoft’s impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game, is more aimed at pulling users onto the software company`s obscure mobile platform than its better known PC system or Xbox game console.

Sep 13, 2014, 09:46 AM IST