Last week Microsoft has just released its fancy new mobile operating system to manufacturers, making the idea of you holding an actual WP7 device in your hands that much closer to reality. The polished operating system is now rolling out to partners around the world where it will be getting carrier and manufacturer tweaks and customizations, and going through the kind of pre-launch testing you would expect for a release of this scale.

There have been a few additional features being injected to the final version before being inserted into manufacturers’ phones. Microsoft has added a feature similar to Android’s Facebook friends’ filters, which will look for pre-existing matches to your Facebook contacts, and if it doesn’t find a match, it doesn’t pull that contact into your address book. It’s a welcome addition and should make the Facebook / Windows Phone 7 combo a lot more palatable to a lot of people.

Furthermore, Microsoft has added functionality into the People Hub which will allow you to “like” someone’s posts, and you’ll be able to comment directly onto someone’s Wall right in the hub.

The company has also made tweaks and fixes focusing on feature discoverability, along with the expected set of polishing and finish like final bug fixes and stuff you’d expect from a product that’s gone gold master.

SOURCE via Engadget