Microsoft has announced that the Release Preview of Windows 8 will be made available during the first week of June. Its possible that this is the final product that we will be able to use come October. More after the jump.

The folks over at Nokia are in full gear to sort out the Data connectivity issue on your Lumia 900. If the $100 rebate wasn’t enough, the Finnish giant has made the software update available three days earlier than what was mentioned earlier. Nokia reiterated that the early release is to show that the issue is not with the hardware of the device or the cellular network.  More on the update process after the break.

Mobile versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel are now available to select Symbian Belle handsets thanks to Nokia and Microsoft. This adds to the release of OneNote, Document Connection, Lync and PowerPoint Broadcast which were added earlier this year. The following handsets are compatible with the update, Nokia E7, C7, C6-01, X7, Oro, 700, 701 or 603. Just launch the Nokia Update Utility and install the update.

Nokia has made the Lumia 900 free for all AT&T customers. Anyone who buys the Lumia 900 from now until April 21st will get a $100 rebate from Nokia making it effectively free. More coverage after the jump.

Although Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been on a steady decline ever since Google’s Chrome browser joined the war, it still has the top spot with more than half of the users sticking to it. According to Net Applications, IE has gained a complete percentage over its rivals in the past month with a market share of 53.83 percent. More after the break.

Microsoft’s ever expanding Windows Phone Marketplace is now available in 13 more countries, namely Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela. This comes within just a few months of the Marketplace being available for Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru and the Philippines, expanding Windows Phone’s global coverage to a total of 54 countries. More at the source link.

Microsoft is all set to release its beta version of the next Windows operating system, which currently powers most of the world’s computers. The event is scheduled for 9:30 AM EST today morning at the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona. Keep reading for what we expect.

Microsoft revealed the new logo for Windows 8 ahead of its consumer preview event to be held on 29th, February. Whether you call it redefined, dull or simply boring its the first time a logo re-design has generated such a huge reaction from the blogosphere as well as the general public. More after the break.