Already this year, the company’s projects that were previously released on Xbox and PC may appear on the App Store and Google Play. The first swallow will be the mobile Age of Empires.

According to rumors, the Redmonds are offering $ 100 thousand to eminent developers to port applications to Windows Phone 8.

Microsoft has announced the Halo: Spartan Assault project, which will be released only on Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms.

On the pages of Fierce Developer, Microsoft evangelist Jesse Freeman talked about what the game needs to succeed in the casual market. 

In the UK alone, children spend about £31 million of parental money per month on unauthorized purchases and IAP, The Guardian reports in its research conducted jointly with Microsoft.

In four days of sales, Russian retailers managed to sell only 300 Surface devices.

Microsoft has made it known that in July next year it will stop all support for its Windows Phone 8 mobile system, whose official release took place in December 2012. 

In five months, Microsoft was able to sell only 1.5 million tablets under the Surface brand. 

ABI Research analysts believe that Finns urgently need to change their policy, currently focused on Windows Phone, if they want the company to survive until the end of 2013. 

In his Twitter blog, Todd Brix, director of the Windows Phone Apps Team, shared data that with the release of WP8, the number of mobile app downloads increased by more than 100%.

Yesterday, in its official blog, Microsoft announced the cost of a new Surface – the Surface Pro, which runs on an Intel processor. The device will go on sale in January.

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Phone 7.8 as an update will be released only in early 2013.

Microsoft and Amazon are planning to launch smartphones under their own brands by mid-2013, according to the DigiTimes resource.

Microsoft Corporation is planning the first update of the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system.

Microsoft Corporation is negotiating to open specialized points of sale of its own devices and software in Europe during 2013, The Financial Times reports.

There are only 1,421 gaming apps available for Windows 8 right now. This figure was announced at the London Games Conference 2012 by Andrew Webber, head of Microsoft’s marketing department.

Microsoft Corporation, a month after the Surface was released, announced the development of an entire ecosystem of mobile devices under its own brand.

Microsoft has announced another competition for application developers. Among the best applications, a prize will be raffled – promotion in the Windows Store during the New Year holidays!

The vice president of Microsoft and the head of the Windows and Windows Live division, announced his retirement from the corporation.