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OfficeTalk — Microsoft’s enterprise-focused microblogging technology — may soon find a home among the company’s product teams and become a shipping product and/or service. View the full article

Supersite Today: Duke Nukem Forever gets a release date, Microsoft evolves OfficeTalk, Apple is perfect, Stuxnet mixed metaphors, avoid an iPad panic, Lenovo and NEC sitting in a tree, and Steve Jobs' real value to Apple: All of it. ... View the full article

Supersite This week, there are two software picks for Windows 7, and the second one is Air Video, which provides a way to watch PC-based video on an iPad, regardless of the source. ... View the full article

The first 2011 update to my Microsoft Codename Tracker chart is done and ready for download. Among the new codenames in this installment is Microsoft “Rome,” Mediaroom for Windows Phone 7. View the full article

Supersite This week's Windows 7 software pick of the week is Eraser, a free utility that allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro An often irreverent look at some of this week's other news, including a further brain drain at Microsoft, questions about the future of Google, a new Microsoft retail store, Kinect on Windows, Mediaroom on Windows Phone 7, the financial failure of MOS, a hiring spree for the next Halo game, the next Call of Duty behind schedule, and a Microsoft home page redesign. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro In a surprise move made during its quarterly financial announcement on Thursday, Google announced that it was disbanding its decision-making "triumvirate" of cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro In a surprise move made during its quarterly financial announcement on Thursday, Google announced that it was disbanding its decision-making "triumvirate" of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt. As part of this change, Page will become Google's CEO and take charge of the company's day-to-day operations, Brin will focus on new product strategy, and Schmidt will become Executive Chairman and focus on deals, partnerships, and the like. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Last week, Google issued a controversial announcement, claiming that the Gmail portion of its Google Apps service had achieved 99.984 percent uptime in 2010. ... View the full article

Brad Brooks, the Corporate Vice President of Consumer Marketing for Windows, has jumped to Juniper Networks. View the full article

Supersite Today: Microsoft's new tagline, a mandatory, anti-piracy Dashboard update for Xbox 360, new Microsoft retail stores, Playboy coming to iPad, Microsoft may have found the Windows Phone 7 data hog culprit, the death of user advocacy and enthusiast engagement at Microsoft, Android fragmentation, Lenovo's new tablet and smartphone group. ... View the full article

Microsoft is opening another retail store in California, company officials said today. The new Microsoft store will be in Costa Mesa, Calif., at the South Coast Plaza Shopping Center — where Apple already has a store. View the full article

A year ago, Microsoft and HP announced a three-year, $250 million partnership to deliver jointly developed “application solutions” and hardware-software appliances. On January 19, 2011, the pair went public with plans for a handful of the turnkey products resulting from the deal. View the full article

Supersite Thanks to strong Mac sales in Q4 2010, Apple now controls 4.42 percent of the market for PCs, and controlled 4.13 percent overall for 2010. But what happens when you factor in iPad sales? ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Apple announced blockbuster financial results for the fourth quarter of 2010, as predicted, with a record net profit of $6 billion on record revenues of $26.74 billion. As the company noted, it was "firing on all cylinders" with strong Mac, iPhone, and iPod sales. But the most startling statistic was for sales of the company's iPad device, which easily shattered even the rosiest of predictions. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro Microsoft and HP today announced a family of converged server application appliances that provide medium-sized businesses and enterprises with integrated solutions for business intelligence (BI), messaging, data warehousing, and database consolidation. ... View the full article

According to a January 14 filing with the Security and Exchange Commission, Novell is selling off 800-plus of its management, security, identity and collaboration software patents to a consortium of tech companies, including Microsoft. View the full article

Supersite You’ve thrilled to Windows Internals, now thrill to Mark Russinovich’s latest masterpiece, the novel Zero Day. It looks somewhat like Daniel Suarez’s Daemon, I think. ... View the full article

Supersite Microsoft announced today the release of OneNote Mobile for iPhone. I was told last year to expect a "deluge" of Microsoft apps for iPhone/iPad, including Office, and while that still hasn't happened, I have to think this is part of that. ... View the full article

Microsoft released a version of its OneNote note-taking application for the Apple iPhone on January 18. Starting today, Microsoft is making OneNote available as a free download from the iTunes store. View the full article

Johnny Chung Lee, a Microsoft researcher who was a “core contributor” to Microsoft’s Kinect gaming sensor, has jumped ship and gone to Google. View the full article

The Worldwide Web Consortium launched a new logo and marketing campaign for HTML5 on January 18, and Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon. View the full article

Supersite Today: The W3C releases a logo system for HTML 5, Ed Bott deconstructs Google's BS rationale behind its H.264 decision, OpenOffice for Dummies, the Xbox 360's best year wasn't really so great, PDFs are the number one electronic attack vector, PC games in 2011, and Steve Jobs's health. ... View the full article

Windows IT Pro I don't write much about hardware, but every once in a while a hardware advance comes along that is so important that it deserves some attention. This year, we begin a pivotal hardware transition that's as big a milestone, I think, as previous transitions. ... View the full article