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By Paul Thurrott My first collection of Windows Phone 7.5 screenshots exceeded the limits of our content management system, so here’s a second screenshot gallery with the remainder of shots, again courtesy of Microsoft. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Beyond the big ticket items mentioned in the previous part of this review, Windows Phone 7.5 includes several hundred other smaller new features and updates. I can’t list them all here, of course, but as you move from app-to-app in Windows Phone 7.5, you’ll notice many changes and niceties. Here are some of the updates I think are most interesting. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott In addition the software itself, there’s a lot more going on around the Windows Phone 7.5 release. In this final part of my review, I’ll examine some exciting but caveat-laden additional features and services, when to expect the new software and Windows Phone 7.5-based handsets, and then provide a summary of this first major update to Microsoft’s innovative smartphone platform. Source: Win Super Site

Users expect their Web sites and apps to work well even when the network isn't available. With data increasingly stored in the cloud, developers want to enable fluid experiences that allow access to data when there is no connectivity when devices are disconnected from the network or when they encounter dead spots in coverage. In this post, we show how to create well-behaved offline sites and apps using the following HTML5 features: [*]AppCache to store file resources locally and access them offline as URLs [*]IndexedDB to store structured data locally so you can access and query it [*]DOM Storage to store small amounts of text information…

Microsoft has started the rollout process for its Windows Phone Mango update for existing Windows Phone users. Here’s what I’ve liked and haven’t about Mango since I’ve been using it for the past couple months. Source: All About Microsoft

By Paul Thurrott Windows Phone 7.5 arrives today as an upgrade for existing customers and will be rolled out with new handsets in the coming weeks and months. In this multi-part review, I’ll examine Microsoft’s latest mobile OS, which I still feel is superior to the iPhone and Android competition. This is a smartphone that puts people first, and doesn’t force you to work the way it does. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Windows Phone 7.5 consists of hundreds of new features, spread out across the system. As such, many of these changes are relatively minor, which is to be expected. But Windows Phone 7.5 does include a number of big ticket items as well. And in this second part of my Windows Phone 7.5 review, I’d like to focus on the major new features in "Mango." Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Microsoft doesn’t provide a way to capture screenshots on Windows Phone, but the software giant gave me permission to use its internally-created screenshots. So here’s a bonanza of screenshots of the just-released Windows Phone 7.5, courtesy of Microsoft. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Microsoft on Tuesday announced that the next version of its smart phone OS, Windows Phone, is now available and has begun shipping to customers around the world. Windows Phone 7.5 is a free update to existing customers and will appear on new hardware in the coming weeks, the company says. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Windows Phone 7.5 is now released

Microsoft Research has launched its first Facebook game and is working on developing a more complete Facebook game-theory platform. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is prepping to begin pushing out the Mango update to Windows Phone, possibly as soon as September 27. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft will be giving Windows 8 users the option to log into their PCs and tablets using their Windows Live ID. Here’s what you’ll get if you do so. Source: All About Microsoft

By Paul Thurrott Amazon is holding a mysterious press event Wednesday in New York, but the open secret is that the online retailing giant will use the event to announce its eagerly anticipated Kindle tablet. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Windows Server 8 is a huge upgrade for businesses, one that will have ramifications a decade down the road. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Samsung today announced that it will be delivering a variant of its Samsung Focus Flash to customers in Europe starting late in October. Dubbed the Samsung Omnia W, this handset will run Windows Phone 7.5, Microsoft’s soon-to-be-release revision to its mobile OS software. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott One of the new features in Windows 8 that I’m particularly intrigued by, mostly because I’ve been asking for this for years, is the ability to log on to the PC with a Windows Live ID instead of a more traditional local user account. Today, on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Microsoft group program manager Katie Frigon tackles this new feature and provides some interesting context. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Rafael Rivera has done more testing to determine whether Microsoft is tracking the location of Windows Phone handsets without users’ consent. And somewhat surprisingly, he has found that the claims are at least partially correct. That is, Windows Phone does transmit location data to Microsoft servers before the user gives consent for that activity. Source: Win Super Site