Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 8 worldwide at an event in San Francisco and also showed off some previously unannounced features. Read on to know the biggest new features coming to the latest version of Windows Phone.

In this sixth installment in our monthly Top Free Windows Phone Apps series, we bring you another five cool apps for your Windows Phone.

After Samsung and Nokia, it was HTC's turn to show off its line-up of smartphones running Microsoft's latest operating system at a press event in New York City, where it unveiled two new WP8 phones - the Windows Phone 8X and the Windows Phone 8S. Read the full specs after the break.

Microsoft is organizing a Windows 8 AppFest, an 18 hour-long coding session, on September 21 in Bangalore, India, where it will make an official attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the 'world's largest app development marathon.'

Last week, Nokia released its two new Windows Phone 8 models, which included its new flagship phone, the Lumia 920. Here is a list of reasons why you should buy the Nokia Lumia 920, and why you shouldn't.

Bing has launched a brand new Web search challenge, aptly titled 'Bing It On,' and is inviting searchers to choose for themselves whose search results they would prefer: Bing's or Google's.

We're back with the fifth installment in our monthly Top Free Windows Phone Apps series, where we scour the Windows Phone Marketplace for five amazing apps for your Windows Phone.

Microsoft has undergone many changes over the last quarter of a century. The only thing that had remained untouched was its Pac-Man styled logo, but that's about to change. Microsoft announced today that it will be adopting a new look.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 all reached the penultimate milestone of their release cycle, RTM, on 1^st August, 2012. Also, the Windows Store is now open for businesses to submit paid Metro style apps using the RTM build of Windows 8.

Microsoft has announced that BUILD, the successor to MIX and PDC, will happen again in 2012. This year's BUILD will be held on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA from 30^th October to 2^nd November, only 4 days after the launch of Windows 8. Registrations will open at 8 AM on 8/8.