Check out a few of our favorite bits from around the web this week. Have a great weekend!

Mango goes RTM In case you missed it, the Windows Phone engineering team officially signed off the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of Mango earlier this week.  Here’s what you didn’t see in this week’s

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Very special show this week, as we crash Terry Myerson’s office and ask him about the recent RTM of the Mango release coming later this fall. We also take some time to chat about some of our favorite apps of the week and recent news. You can find Windows Phone Radio in the Zune Marketplace, iTunes and streaming direct

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When we announced the availability of Mango for our registered developers a few weeks ago, we put out a call to student developers: show us a great prototype of your Windows Phone app idea and get a developer phone.

So far, we’ve had a tremendous response! We’ve been inspired & impressed by some of the crazy ideas: an

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When I say “Lenovo” to most PC users, their immediate response is “Oh, the guys who make ThinkPads?”  That’s to be expected; Lenovo is world-famous for building some of the best business PCs on the market.  What most people don’t know is that they also make some really beautiful consumer PCs as well.  Today’s

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Yesterday we started delivering another round of hardware-specific updates to Windows Phones around the world. As I explained last week, these are being sent to specific models—not every phone—and are designed to make targeted improvements to things like battery life, call clarity, or touch responsiveness, depending on the model.

We’ll send these hardware-specific updates from time to time.

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To be frank, I’m a little bit scared of BlogHer (the female-centric blogging conference of the year): the hype, the people, and the sheer amount of energy. It’s a good thing then that Windows is grabbing a place by the pool. We’ll be lounging in cabanas (read: meeting with lots of bloggers) and going on sailing rides (read: introducing

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Hello everyone. Windows Phone user Tammilee Tillison of Tammilee’s Tips was featured on TLC’s Extreme Couponing earlier this year using her HTC HD7 to track coupons during a shopping trip. So, we asked her to share some of her favorite apps, tips and tricks for maximizing money savings with your Windows Phone.

Tips from Tammilee

My coupon journey

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Last month, we released Beta 2 of the Windows Phone SDK 7.1. Yesterday, Windows Phone Engineering CVP Terry Myerson announced Windows Phone OS RTM. Today, I’m excited to announce that we are offering a refresh of the beta tools to our registered developer community.

Starting this morning, you can download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1

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Microsoft currently has a nonprofit software donations program set up to help nonprofits gain access to the latest and greatest software from Microsoft. This program is available in over 100 countries across the world and since 1998 over $3.9 billion worth of software has been donated. Of that, Windows has accounted for nearly $450 million worth of donations.

Today, we

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I’ve mentioned before the strong commercial adoption we’re seeing with Windows 7 (a few companies we’ve talked about are GM, Spir-IT and Feeding America), and we couldn’t be happier to help our business customers make the upgrade to take full advantage of the enhanced security, manageability and performance that Windows 7

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