Last week the first jailbreak tool for Windows Phone 7 handsets made an appearance. ChevronWP7, the brainchild of Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh, allowed users to sideload applications onto ...

Last week saw the release of ChevronWP7, a tool to allow development and installation of Windows Phone 7 applications on any phone, without having to go through the Microsoft approval process. The ...

Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow for the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications. Microsoft quickly issued a statement ...

Windows RT is a sort of unique member of the Microsoft family of operating systems. It’s Windows, but it’s not. From a more technical aspect, Windows RT is actually the entire Windows OS rebuilt for ...

Microsoft’s fledgling mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, managed to be live for little over a month before somebody released a jailbreak tool for the OS. Three men have just done that, as ...

With the first jailbreaking tool for Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 being taken down, another one is on its way. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about ...

As is the way of such things, just days after one coder figured out a way around Microsoft's Windows RT controls another individual has created an easy-to-use tool based on the example. Posted by ...

Earlier this week we posted a tutorial showcasing how to jailbreak iOS 13.5 on macOS, but we realize that not all iPhone users are Mac users. In today’s tutorial, I ...

Just a few days after hackers figured out how to run unauthorized desktop apps on Windows RT tablets, a hacker on the XDA Developers forum has posted a download-and-click jailbreak tool for the ...

Windows and the Microsoft Surface have a jailbreak exploit to run apps that didn't come from the Windows Store. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and ...

Looks like we’ll soon see a jailbreak for Windows RT. A Nicaraguan hacker has discovered a way to defeat the code signature test in RT that prevents desktop code from running. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) ...

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