TNW Quick Hit: Earlier today we brought you the news of a whole slew of upcoming updates to the Windows Phone platform. As part of the ‘Mango’ update to Windows Phone, Microsoft is set to boost the phone line’s business chops, allowing it to take up the mantle of its predecessor, Windows Mobile. We think that it is a good move. If you missed the news,head hereto get caught up. If you want the short version, Microsoft services such as Office 365 and Lync are going to sync up with Windows Phone once the update is released....

Last Wednesday webrought you news of a lawsuitthat accused Microsoft of directly infringing on the privacy of users of its Windows Phone 7 line of mobile phones. Today, Microsoft responded, saying that the suit is incorrect in its portrayal of the company’s actions. The issue stems from an alleged issue with the camera button present on all WP7 handsets. According to the suit, Microsoft tracks users’ locations when they push the camera button, often against their express will, which is a sweeping charge....

Today Microsoft released August’s Patch Tuesday set of updates, which contained 13 total bulletins. Two of the thirteen bulletins were marked as ‘critical,’ nine deemed ‘important,’ and two were marked as merely ‘moderate’ in importance. The two critical bulletins involve Internet Explorer and Windows. What follows is Microsoft’s full explanation of the two worst vulnerabilities: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2559049) This security update resolves five privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer....

TNW Quick Hit: Today Microsoft revealed a number ofnew featuresthat will ship in the so-called ‘Mango’ update to the Windows Phone platform later this year. Mango is a large enough upgrade to the phone line that it will induce a name change from Windows Phone 7, to 7.5. The newly unveiled features are pointed directly at businesses. From Microsoft, this is the list of what is to come: What is important about these updates is that they will put Windows Phone comfortably into the niche that Windows Mobile used to occupy: the corporate space....

TodayMicrosoft announcedmost of the features in the mobile edition of Internet Explorer 9 that was built for the Windows Phone smartphone line. As TNW hasreported in the past, IE9 Mobile is a rather interesting browser as it is harmonious with its bigger brother, Internet Explorer 9 for PC. By that we mean that IE9 Mobile shares much of the same code of its sibling. Microsoft stated that the idea for this was to save developers time, by not forcing them to develop for two separate browsers, but one that worked on multiple platforms....