Earlier this week we brought you news from Hong Kong that Microsoft had, supposedly,outlined a number of key elementsof the Tango update to Windows Phone. Most of our suspicions were confirmed. Tango will be a lower cost version of Windows Phone that is designed to serve non-mainstream markets, and it is, in fact, not a yearly release like Mango or Apollo, but is instead a coming update to Mango. News today from ZDNet’s ever accurate Mary Jo Foley hasshed even more light on what Tango will be, and how it will arrive....

Microsoft is working on the construction of a new tool for its cloud offerings called ‘Concero.’ Concero is a “cloud management portal” that will “allow customers to oversee both on-premises and cloud-based services,” according toZDNet. Microsoft had a mention of the product on thetopics pagefor the upcoming Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). At the time of writing, it had been removed. Before it was taken down, this is what Microsoft had to say on the now less secretive Concero:...

TNW Quick Hit: Our friends over at AllThingsD have created ahighlights videofrom a long sit-down talk that Walt Mossberg had with Dean Hachamovitch, the man in charge of Internet Explorer, at CES. Whether you are just a developer, or a fan of a different browser, the video is full of insights. Microsoft’s main point on privacy is that (condensed) “every site you visit pulls in content from around the internet, and that content can track you, which is why we want to give users control with IE9....

An internal video from Microsoftleaked today, revealing the company’s vision for the future of gaming. To say that what Microsoft is cooking up is incredibly ‘cute’ would be an understatement. From the company who built that platform that brought the world Halo 3 and Gears of War, we expected more. To show off the main components of gaming that Microsoft views as critical for the future, which are social, search, transactions, and cooperative play, the company used FarmVille and Bejeweled 2....

TLDR:With The Ultimate Windows 11 Training Video Course, new users get a complete crash course in everything that’s the same and different in Microsoft’s first OS update in six years. You may not have realized it, but the landscape for your Windows PC shifted seismically earlier this month. For the first time in six years, Windows unleashed an update to its venerable operating system asWindows 11rolled out across the web. While many older PCs aren’t supported by the requirements of the brightest, shiniest new Windows OS, many other newer devices have already made the switch....