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By Thurrott, Paul Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications on Tuesday announced what it says will be the first handset based on Windows Phone "Mango," the next generation Windows Phone OS that Microsoft finalized this week. And in keeping with the next generation theme, this device, the IS12T, is a monster. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft announced today that its free (and excellent) photo editing and management solution, Windows Live Photo Gallery, can be updated with a free codec pack to support many popular RAW file formats. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Amazon announced that it earned net income of $191 million on revenues of $9.91 billion in the second quarter, the latter of which is a 51 percent gain over the revenues from the same quarter a year ago. As always, the Kindle was the star of the show with accelerating (but unspecified) growth and a continued status as the online retailer’s best-selling and best-reviewed product. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul A month or more before its expected completion date, the next version of the Windows Phone 7 OS, codenamed Mango, has been shipped to manufacturing. But it may be some months still before consumers can get their hands on devices based on the new system. Source: Win Super Site

On July 26, Microsoft made it official: The “Mango” operating system update for Windows Phones has RTM’d (released to manfucturing). Source: All About Microsoft

Mozilla is working on a new mobile-centric OS via its Boot to Gecko project. How will this end up competing with Microsoft? Source: All About Microsoft

I’m here to deliver the bad news to those calling for Microsoft to bong Bing. It’s not happening any time soon. And here’s why. Source: All About Microsoft

By Thurrott, Paul Back when Microsoft announced its current-generation Xbox 360 console, the sleek and black Xbox 360 S, I asked when would we see a nice new media remote that was styled like the S console? It’s finally coming this November. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Linux scared the crap out of Microsoft for the same reason it excited me: What, I thought, would happen if Linux could successfully provide a Windows-like experience, but for free? Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Microsoft today released an update to its popular OneNote Mobile app for iPhone, bringing the version number up to 1.2 as it adds some new features and new international availability. Source: Win Super Site

By Thurrott, Paul Bowing to new licensing rules that allow Apple even greater control over its insular device ecosystem, Amazon.com and other electronic book sellers this week released new versions of their apps for iPhones and iPads that remove the ability to make purchases inside the apps. For users, it’s a serious inconvenience. But for Apple, it’s just another power play. Source: Win Super Site

This week, Juniper Networks announced that it is adding another former Redmondian to its roster: Former Server and Tools President Bob Muglia Source: All About Microsoft

Hello all, I'm trying to run SCCM 2007 R3. Installation seems to have gone fine, however I do not seem to be able to syncronize my WSUS properly. In SCCM I see the logs: SMS_WSUS_CONFIGURATION_MANAGER MS WSUS Configuration Manager failed to configure upstream server settings on WSUS Server "myserver". and SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER The operating system reported error 2147500037: Unspecified error I have done some Google searches but found nothing to help solve this. If I open WSUS manually outside SCCM and run the sync it works fine. I have no idea what could be wrong. I've tried reinstalling the whole SCCM/WSUS system but no change. Anyone have any th…

Microsoft rolled out an update to its Windows Azure toolkit for iOS which adds support for identity federation across Google, Yahoo, Live ID, Facebook and ADFS. Source: All About Microsoft

By Thurrott, Paul This retrospective covers the second half of Zune’s lifetime, from roughly 2008 through 2010, and encompasses the third and fourth generation of the platform’s software, services, and devices. Microsoft did something special there, but then they just let it die. And that’s a shame, because Zune was ultimately pretty darned good. It’s just too bad most people will never know this. Source: Win Super Site

Microsoft and SUSE announced they are extending the 2006 Microsoft-Novell Linux patent-protection agreement, and that Microsoft is buying $100 million worth of SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates for its customers. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft and SUSE announced they are extending the 2006 Microsoft-Novell Linux patent-protection agreement, and that Microsoft is buying $100 million worth of SUSE Linux Enterprise certificates for its customers. Source: All About Microsoft

By Thurrott, Paul Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced this morning that it will reduce its workforce by approximately 2,000 employees in an effort to cut costs as the market for its smart phones dries up amidst heavy competition. That cut represents about 11 percent of RIM’s total workforce, and the company will have approximately 17,000 employees when the cuts are completed. Source: Win Super Site