Mobile & Apps: It has been a long time since Microsoft was the hot topic on the lips of consumers and fingertips on the Internet, but with recent unveilings such as the Microsoft Surface tablet and Windows Phone 8, the company has done what Apple has been doing for years - be in the news. Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's smartphone platform that is gearing up to go head-to-head with Android and iOS this fall, is the company's latest and greatest effort in trying to get piece of the mobile pie, and we think we know how Microsoft plans on pulling it off. (Gaming, Microsoft, Phones, Software, Web, Windows Phone 8, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE)