As we reported yesterday, Microsoft together with au by KDDI and Toshiba-Fujitsu announced the world’s first Windows Phone 7.5 device in Japan today – the Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T. Check out the image below for a render of the new device …

Microsoft just signed off on the RTM (Release To Manufacturing) build of their latest Windows Phone OS 7.5, codenamed “Mango”, less than 24 hours ago. Cliff Simpkins, Senior Product Manager on the Windows Phone team, commented on the official blog …

Microsoft made it official this morning, the latest version of the Windows Phone operating system, code named Mango, has been released to manufacturing.  Mango includes some 500 new features (MobileTechWorld has a list, via Mary Jo Foley…

Microsoft showed off Avatar Kinect for Xbox 360 back in CES 2011 back in January this year, allowing players to interact with one another using their Xbox LIVE Avatars. The Kinect sensor will be able to recognise facial expressions – …

Remember our previous post about Windows live sign-in now set for use with one account? How we were wondering why Linked-IDs was not mentioned in the team’s post when telling how to best set up things in the new design? …

The day is here – Microsoft is set to officially unveil the first Windows Phone “Mango” device during a press event tomorrow (Wednesday July 27) at 10am Tokyo time in Japan (check your local time here). Together with au …

An commentary in the New York Times Business Day section today suggests that Microsoft should sell Bing, perhaps to Facebook, because it has become “a distraction” for Microsoft, and selling it would be “a boon” for Microsoft investors.  The …

A post on the Rimm-Kaufman Group (RKG) blog spotted some new, and perhaps controversial, ad placements on Bing organic search results: the listing of paid ads inline along with organic results, demarked only by an “ad” notifier to the right …

According to the Lowdermilks over at Windows Phone Dev Podcast, the latest version of the Windows Phone OS, code named “Mango” has been released to manufacturing, and is being sent out to carriers and OEMs to begin their (sometimes …

We’ve seen Microsoft’s next generation operating system Windows 8 a few months ago, featuring a brand new “immersive” interface that makes it really intuitive to use on touch-based devices such as tablets. As mentioned during D9, they designed Windows 8 …