Microsoft has bragged about its growing app store for Windows Phone 7 devices, but the store’s offerings are still puny compared to Apple’s or Google’s stores. The Windows Phone 7 app store has around ...

Windows Phone 7 Series is courting developers this week at the Mix10 conference in Las Vegas, giving us a glimpse of the applications we can expect to see on our WinPhev phones at the end of the year.

Microsoft is putting together a Web-based version of its application store for Windows Phone 7 smartphones, in the fashion of leading app stores from Apple and Google. The Web-based Windows Phone 7 ...

Windows Phone 7 devices began to hit retail stores in America this week, and we suspect that the flood of applications will follow shortly. Just as the Apple App Store and Android Market blossomed ...

Apple's iOS and Mac app stores have popularized the concept, but Microsoft, Google, and others are now adopting it Apple’s App Store for its iPhone and other iOS devices is an unqualified success, ...

A broader App Store could grow in two directions: as a source for other slimmed-down devices, most notably netbooks, and as a place for software distribution for full-featured computers running ...