Microsoft Support & Discussions

By Paul Thurrott At its BlackBerry DevCon conference this week, officials from RIM pinned the company’s flagging hopes on a next-generation mobile OS called BBX that it says combines the best features of today’s BlackBerry OS with that of QNX, the basis for its PlayBook tablet. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott Apple’s well-oiled relationship with financial analysts suffered a rare misstep this week when Apple released stellar financial results that inexplicably fell below expectations for the first time in a decade. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott There’s never been a better time to be an Xbox 360 owner, and while one must naturally wonder how long the ride can last, Microsoft’s video game console shows no immediate signs of slowing down. Here’s what’s available this holiday season. Source: Win Super Site

Should Microsoft move to a more Apple-like model and make its own smartphone? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn’t provide a firm yes or no answer to that Web 2.0 Summit question. Source: All About Microsoft

Here’s more of the back story behind Microsoft’s holiday 2011 ad campaign, courtesy of a Microsoft OEM fact sheet focused on the Windows 7 PC marketing component. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft and Yahoo are extending their revenue-per-search guarantee through 2013 as evidence of their mutual commitment to their two-year-old search pact. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is delivering a near-final test build of its LINQ to HPC technology, codenamed “Dryad,” which competes with Hadoop. Source: All About Microsoft

By Paul Thurrott Microsoft announced the immediate availability of Windows Intune 2, the new version of its cloud-based PC management service. Source: Win Super Site

Now that Microsoft’s Windows 8 Developer preview has been out for just over a month, what do some of the hackers of earlier leaked builds think of it? Source: All About Microsoft

By Paul Thurrott I join the Geek Gamer Weekly podcast this week to discuss the Apple 4S, Windows 8, Skype, DLC Gaming and much, much more. Source: Win Super Site

By Paul Thurrott For the past week, I’ve been using an iPhone 3GS with iOS 5 as my primary handset. And when my recently ordered iPhone 4S arrives, I’ll give that a similar vetting. But I have to be honest: After 15 straight months of using Windows Phone, going back to the iPhone is like going back in time. Source: Win Super Site

Hello, I have inherited a Server 2008R2 SP1 Set up for a small company owned by a family friend. (I am not Server 2008 terminal Services Savvy). They want to look at terminal services and have just changed over from SBS 2011. The server is and AD DC with Remote Desktop Services Installed (plus all the prerequisites IIS etc..) The new server roles were installed pretty much with all the default settings and they have Remote Desktop within the LAN. They previously had the SBS 2011 connection wizards set up remote access through their ISP (remote.securist.co.uk) and have an A record pointing to their (dynamic) IP address of the router. The router has port…

A number of Windows Phone Mango users are reporting their soft keyboards are disappearing intermittently since upgrading to the newest Microsoft mobile operating system. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft outlined its mobile BI roadmap, which includes support for Microsoft business intelligence tools on iOS, Android and Windows 8 over the next year-plus. Source: All About Microsoft

Drawbridge, a Microsoft Research project, expands on the “library OS” concept to streamline virtualization for application sandboxing. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft has made the second version of its Windows Intune cloud-management service generally available to customers on October 17, as promised. Source: All About Microsoft