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The Windows Phone community is ready for Mango, the coming important upgrade to the WP7 platform. But ‘Tango,’ the update that will follow it, is just becoming known. Today a screenshot surfaced that shows off an important component of what Tango will contain: content search. Something that the Mango edition of Windows Phone lacks is effective, non-web search, so the addition of the feature is more than welcome. The tool appears to mimic what the iOS platform currently can do, although its very late addition is a bit frustrating....

This morning at its BUILD event, Microsoft took the wraps off of its plans for Windows Server 8. The announcements came just one day after the company began to explain, and distribute, Windows 8. Microsoft’s Server and Tools Business President, Satya Nadella, explained that Windows Server 8 is a cloud-focused piece of software. Microsoft is leaning heavily on its experience with its cloud-computing Azure product to flesh out and deliver the new edition of Windows Server....

Microsoft has made available the Windows Thin PC CTP (community technology preview). Unlike the final software, the CTP is, as its name suggests, open to the public. Eventually, the product will only be available to ‘Software Assurance’ volume customers. It can bedownloaded here. A thin client is a computer with, to put it in simple english, most of its processing guts elsewhere, often on a central server. A computer that is a thin client is not a dumb terminal in the most focused sense, but is trending in that direction....

Several weeks after its release to manufacturer build shipped, the Windows Thin PC client is nowavailable for general downloadby Microsoft Software Assurance customers. Windows Thin PC is a small Windows 7 footprint build that is designed for use in the enterprise sector. Windows Thin PC went through an extensive ‘community technology preview’ period, in which Microsoft solicited feedback from users as to what needed to be changed or improved in the software....

We’ve been coveringWindows Thin PCfor quite some time here on TNWmicrosoft, and are thus somewhat relived that the product has at last reached ‘release to manufacturer’ status, or RTM. Microsoft announced inblog posttoday that the Windows Thin PC client will be available for download on July 1st, 2011. And just in case you were wondering, the correct acronym for a computer that runs Windows Thin PC is a ‘WinTPC.’ There, now you know....