A year ago, we characterized Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile as a second-tier OS, but not one that’s second rate. Fast-forward nine months later to the Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update, and we’re ...

The most popular handheld devices among adults today are either mobile phones with PDA-like productivity features or PDAs with phone-like communications features. Then there are the plain-vanilla PDAs ...

(1) (Windows mobile) Any Windows-based mobile device. See Windows Phone. Windows Mobile featured small-screen versions of Office and other Microsoft applications along with third-party apps from ...

Microsoft has finally acknowledged for good what the rest of us have known for some time. Windows 10 Mobile has bought the farm, kicked the bucket, left the building, and passed on. Said in that ...

When Microsoft announced its Windows 10 strategy last year, the thinking was that the unified platform would drive Windows Mobile and finally bring the Windows phone out of the doldrums where it’s ...

Associate Editor Nate Ralph is an aspiring wordsmith, covering mobile software and hardware for CNET Reviews. His hobbies include dismantling gadgets, waxing poetic about obscure ASCII games, and ...

Nostalgia is a powerful thing. It has been the primary driving force behind all the major film and television releases in the last 10 years, such as with the Marvel and Star Warsfilm franchises. A ...

So farewell then, Windows Phone: Microsoft has now dropped support for Windows Phone 8.1, the operating system running on the majority of Windows-powered handsets. According to advertising analytics ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has detailed the specifications Windows 10 Mobile will require for future mobile phones ...

It has been Microsoft’s goal ever since it dumped Windows Mobile: to deliver an operating system kernel that worked just as well on a handheld device as on a laptop. Back in 2008, that goal seemed ...

With Windows 10, which will be released today, Microsoft hopes to break the cycle in which consumers shun Windows for mobile. According to one analyst, 'This is all in the direction of building a ...

Miss the old Windows for mobile phones? Me either. Windows Mobile was always a dreary, confusing mess, which is why Microsoft scrapped the series completely and started fresh with Windows Phone 7, ...