If you are a volume-license customer of Microsoft, you are now able to download several updated versions of the company’s virtualization tools. The Redmond software giant has made available the first service pack for Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 (App-V 4.6), which can be foundhere. This is part of theMDOP 2011release. According toMicrosoft, the release is mostly notable for its inclusion of “Package Accelerators,” a feature that will “give IT pros and ISVs a way to covert traditional applications directly into App-V....

While we here at TNW have had Mango for some time, hordes of hungry developers have been forced to wait to get their hands on the next version of Windows Phone. That ends today, as Microsoft has released Mango to its developer community. Microsoft is distributing Mango to developers now as part of an ‘early release’ program that will over the next several week expand into a global release: For Mango, that starts today with an early access program for developers....

TNW Quick Hit: Microsoft has made available the release candidate for Windows Thin PC, marking the first public update to the software since its community test preview (CTP) was initially released onMarch 29th, 2011. The new build number is 7601.17514. As per our previous coverage of the Thin PC client, this is what it does: “A thin client is a computer with, to put it in simple English, most of its processing guts elsewhere, often on a central server....

This morning, Microsoft’srelease of Mango for developerscame with a caveat: “[Developers] may update only one phone.” Thus read, and still reads, theApp Hub entryfor the Mango distribution. It seemed that Microsoft was trying to limit the number of Mangoed phones in the wild, something that was odd as to actually execute the update a handset must be unlocked, limiting greatly the total number of phones that are in fact upgradeable....

From today’s “what are they going to do with that?” file,Reuters is reportingthat Microsoft is considering a bid to buy Yahoo, after havinglost a bidto do the same in 2008. Citing a “high-ranking Microsoft executive” it’s reported that the deal may never surface due to the fact that there are different internal divisions to Microsoft which could stand in the way. History having a way of being correct, Yahoo likely should have accepted the first deal from Microsoft, given that it was in the range of $42 billion....