Microsoft's week saw Windows Phone reach its release-to-manufacturing milestone and a renewal of its long-term SUSE inoperability agreement.

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It may be slick, even impressive, but it has no personality.

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Microsoft is banking on Dilbert creator Scott Adams to show some love for Windows Phone 7, but will the high-risk maneuver work?

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share: digg facebook twitter Buried deep within Microsoft’s annual report Thursday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is this little gem: In the company’s 2011 fiscal year, revenue for the Xbox 360 platform was $8.103 billion. That’s not what’s noteworthy. What’s noteworthy is if you subtract that number from overall revenue to the Entertainment and Devices Division – [...]

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Microsoft has released the latest beta version of the Windows Phone 7 Mango development tools and OS build to developers. They can now start final preparations for submitting the first batch of Mango apps for certification in August. Carriers and handset makers are already testing near-final code for new phones due this fall.

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Microsoft has signed off on the next version of its smartphone OS: now the complicated dance with its carriers and handset vendors begins. Microsoft has signed off the code for the "Mango" version of its Windows Phone operating system - officially, the code has RTM'd (been released to manufacturing) - according to the Windows Team Blog . There, Terry Myerson, the corporate vice-president on the ...

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Mullets may not be pretty, but they are functional and now that people are bringing phones to the workplace Windows Phone 7 is best at offering business in the front and a party in the back.

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A recent survey found that only 7 percent of shoppers prefer Windows Phone 7 over competing smartphone operating systems, a number that doesn't bode well for Microsoft.

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Windows Phone Mango was released to manufacturing Tuesday, with handset manufacturers and mobile network operators receiving the finalized operating system code so that they can wrap up their own development and testing efforts. On Wednesday, developers for the platform were given access to a Mango update that's almost the RTM version—but not quite. The full release candidate SDK will ship some ...

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The major software update for Windows Phone called Mango has hit the milestone known as "release to manufacturing" or RTM. The milestone means the software is ready for phone makers to install on new phones being built. Microsoft announced the milestone in a Tuesday company blog post . This presumably includes Nokia, which is expected to bring its first Windows Phone to market by the end of the ...

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