This post has been updated, please see the final paragraph. Microsoft is planning to release Mango to the Windows Phone development community before its public launch this Fall. According to the company’s Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone, developers should be able to play with and field test Mango before it reaches the mass market. However, it seems that the plan is just that, a plan. The company has yet to have anything nailed down, so we can’t tell you much more....

We try and only bring you rumors and the like that we trust nearly completely here at TNW Microsoft. Today we are going to step back from that and cover something that is potentially true, but that we are not comfortable giving our full nod to. Microsoft could be set to give attendees of the BUILD conference a quad-core Windows 8 slate device. Yes, at the bottom of the post we have images of the purported tablet....

It’s that time of the month again, the moment in which Microsoft unveils what will be contained in the forthcoming installment of Patch Tuesday. As always, today’s release is an ‘Advance Notification,’ with the actual fixes coming along shortly. This time around, the final code will drop on October 11th, so mark the date on your calendars. There will be a total of 8 bulletins in October’s patch batch, two of which are marked as ‘critical,’ with the rest deemed simply ‘important....

Microsoft is to be probed by the UK’s Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) after complaints about the company’s claims it can guarantee 99.9% uptime on its cloud services,The Register reports. With the Redmond-based company’s Office 365 platform going down twice in just three months, it will face challenged over misleading claims of its reliability and uptime, with the complainant noting that Microsoft hasn’t been able to achieve 99.9% uptime since it launched:...

Microsoft is likely set to distribute a pre-release version of Windows 8 at the BUILD conference next month. But what about those who cannot attend? The company spoke today in an attempt to assuage the fears of those who are fretting about being locked out of any Windows 8 distribution due to their non-attendance of BUILD. Of course, the company did not go out and say as much, and instead was a bit obfuscuatory in its wording....