Unofficial mockup of a Nokia WP7 device.

Shortly after the folks over at Redmond unveiled the newest version of Windows Phone 7, dubbed “Mango”, Nokia has confirmed that several of its future device slated for release this year will sport Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system. Nokia has officially said:

Today Microsoft has announced the key new ingredients of the latest ‘Mango’ release of the Windows Phone operating system. This is the software that will be used on the first Nokia with Windows Phone device, and so should be of keen interest to Nokia-watchers everywhere.

In addition, Microsoft employees said during the keynote that they have several Nokia handsets running Windows Phone 7 in their labs. And unlike most other products Microsoft has made, none of them have leaked. Also, they won’t look anything like the renders that Engadget has leaked before, according to Nokia’s Jo Harlow in an interview with Forbes.

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[Source: Nokia]

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One of the selling points of Windows 7 when it came out was the irresistible touch pack, a suite of applications designed for multi-touch, which only just came out as an optional user download. Before today, only OEMs had access to the suite, deciding whether they wanted to include the pack with their PC. There were leaks, but there no official release to the general public. You still will need a touch screen, not a mouse for the free apps to work. The pack is divided as three games and three Microsoft Surface apps, designed for Windows 7.

The download is a whopping (but understandable) 240MB, and is available at the Microsoft download site.

Source: The Windows Blog

What you see above is the Earth Hour style of Bing…which is today’s pictures only with lights off. Quoting ourselves from two posts ago, “it’s nice that Microsoft wants to spread the cause of saving the environment, but for those who did their research will know that it will use more energy to show black on flat panel screen that it does for other colors.”

Click the jump to see how it looked like a few hours ago (or simply scroll down).

Bing has announced yesterday that it will turn off the lights on their search site by making it darker, similar to what Google did 2008. It’s nice that Microsoft wants to spread the cause of saving the environment, but for those who did their research will know that it will use more energy to show black on flat panel screen that it does for other colors. Microsoft does note this by saying that “While a darker version of our page doesn’t save any energy over the regular version, we wanted to do our part to help spread the word“, but they add insult to injury by not removing the black until 9:30am Pacific tomorrow. This goes great for their company image, but why do the opposite of what you actually want represent?

The image above is Bing’s image for the day, but not what they will use for Earth Hour. The Earth Hour site will be shown at 8:30pm Eastern time.