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The Windows Phone 7 Series was recently airbrushed into a Timotei-style web commercial that shines over the operating system's limitations.

An ad, featuring the Anthropologie family of Anna, Miles, and Luca - plus the babysitter - smiling, taking photos, playing games, and casually flipping through endless screens of messages and Facebook pages on phones that all run Windows Phone 7 Series was featured on YouTube by the company.

Strumming guitar completes the ad, as the music instrument is matchless in saying something earthy and wholesome.

Microsoft has revealed the next version of its Mobile OS, Windows Phone 7, which is counted among one of the most important launches of the present times.

Web developers were made familiar with some of the details on the new OS at the recently held conference in Las Vegas. This launch has been termed “final chance to get it right” in the cut throat competition of the mobile market.

Windows Phone executive Todd Brix said, “It's actually an intentional design decision. We try to anticipate what the user wants, so copy and paste isn't necessary”.

Microsoft has accepted that the commonly used applications, cut and paste will not be there in the new Windows phone 7 Series. But it has assured that it will continue with its new creations as per the demands of the customers.

Earlier there were several comments made at MIX10 on the Windows 7 Series phone. Speculations on the device's cut- paste ability between applications were mentioned over there.

Software giant Microsoft is reportedly working towards unveiling its own mobile phones in the U. S. later this year in a bid to challenge the emerging smartphone dominance of its main competitors Apple and Google, the technology blog Gizmodo posted on Friday.

An international team of 3 researchers Chris Harrison, Dan Morris and Desney Tan, who are working with Microsoft, are working on a skin-based interface that has a capability of making human body a touchscreen.

Microsoft Corp is reported to launch its most vehement and public attack on Google Inc on Friday, reckoning its Internet rival's actions potentially anti-competitive, and urging victims to file complaints to regulators.

In addition, it is reported that Microsoft is fighting a plan by Google to digitize millions of books, currently under scrutiny by the US Department of Justice.

Microsoft will issue an out-of-cycle patch for the Internet Explorer loopholes which is thought to be misused for attacks against Google and many other companies.

The World's biggest software firm said in a statement on Tuesday, "Given the significant level of attention this issue has generated, confusion about what customers can do to protect themselves, and the escalating threat environment, Microsoft will release a security update out-of-band for this vulnerability."

A rehearing was appealed to an appeals court by Microsoft in the patent that requires the company to pay US$290 million in damages. The patent also prohibits the software giant from selling the current version of Word starting Monday.

The suit found Microsoft guilty with utilizing a patent held by i4i in a feature in Word 2003 and 2007, which allows the people to make custom XML documents.

On Wednesday, technology giant Microsoft gained some more happy fans as the company showcased a special set of tools which will allow users to enter text in their computer in as many as 6 different Indian languages, namely Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. The tool, developed by the Microsoft India Development Centre, will soon be available as a free download for Microsoft OS computers across the country.

Software and Internet services giant Microsoft is all set to launch the commercial availability of all its online services throughout India. Starting at a nominal price of $2 or Rs.
95 per month for each user, the service will allow small and medium enterprises and customers to access Microsoft's e-mail, collaboration, conferencing and productivity facilities online.