In a move that may undercut Nokia, it’s rumored the Mango update will be released to users on September 1. Nokia’s new Windows phones are due on the market in October.

Microsoft has long been fond of using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the proprietary software from Microsoft. Their new focus on JavaScript has caught many programmers by surprise.

MS PROJECT NOW! has announced new Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server 2010 online training courses. The courses include Microsoft Project 2010 Scheduling for Success, Demand Management Administration and Configuration for Project Server 2010, Project Server 2010 Planning, Selection, Prioritization and Optimization and Project Server 2010 Administration and Configuration.

Google has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to disallow testimony from Robert Stevenson because Microsoft did not ask permission to show him Android code.

While there are more critical fixes in this week’s list of patches from Microsoft, a vulnerability marked "CVE-2011-1871", is similar to one from the mid 1990s.

Microsoft UK is offering vouchers to BPOS customers who lost service after the Dublin data center was hit by lightening. Microsoft is promising there will be no further outages.

Nokia may be committed to building phones for Microsoft but if Motorola starts building WinPhone7 devices similar to the Droid, they may be more influential.

If you’re preparing to migrate your enterprise to Windows 7, now is not the time to be thinking about how different Windows 8 will be or how comfortable everyone is with WinXP.

The InstallAware 12 setup authoring tool lets companies deploy products, patches, and web updates. InstallAware DRM, new in InstallAware 12, converts existing Win32, Win64, or .NET applications into protected Try-and-Die or Try-and-Buy applications.

There has been a lot of talk about the ‘Mango’ patch for WinPhone7. But there is also a ‘Tango’ release targeted for "lower-price point" phones, perhaps in Asia.