Microsoft has announced that Windows Phone 8 Apollo will not arrive for older Windows Phone 7 handsets, breaking the bad news to Nokia Lumia 900 owners.
The Redmond-based software maker said at the Windows Phone 8 developer conference in San Francisco that existing Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices will not receive an upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system.
As a remedy, Microsoft revealed that several features in Apollo would still make its way to these smartphones …

Microsoft is set to announce the launch of its next-generation mobile operating system update with the Windows Phone 8 Apollo on June 20.
According to an invitation that requests the presence of the press, the Redmond-based software giant is ready to reveal a “sneak peak at the future of Windows Phone” in San Francisco on the said date. While Microsoft remains tight-lipped about the event’s main agenda, most industry followers are betting on a Windows Phone 8 launch.

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Microsoft has announced that its Windows Phone Marketplace finally made a milestone after it passed the 100,000 apps mark, but still significantly falls behind app markets Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Based on data compiled by All About Windows Phone, app developers seem to want more involvement in the third ecosystem, as Microsoft’s mobile app store only needed five months to double its amount to 100,000 apps after it took 14 months to pass the 50,000 mark.

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A leaked Windows Phone update schedule has provided new information on the mobile platform’s probable release dates for upcoming software.
The plan, as reported by WMPoweruser, shows that the Windows Phone Tango update will arrive by the second quarter of this year, thwarting earlier reports of a launch at CES 2012 at Las Vegas on January 9.
Then again, it could appear at the CES this year but will only be an introduction rather than a rollout, which will be from April to June.
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Microsoft has not been so much of a threat to rivals Apple and Google when it comes to Windows Phone sales but the company is making progress in terms of marketplace apps.
According to niche site All About Windows Phone, the Windows Phone Marketplace has passed over the 50,000 app submission mark on December 29 with more than 50,000 apps available on the market today.
While Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market still have more mobile apps than the Windows Phone Marketplace, the …

Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile operating system never had something big to worry about in terms of piracy because of its comparatively low popularity until recently.
Nokia, however, jumped into the picture and changed several things for Windows Phone devices, the third biggest ecosystem after Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, drawing more customers and the hacking community as well.
One hacker owned and put forward the XAP file of a standard paid navigation app to the Windows Phone …