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  1. Microsoft has been touting for a while the ability for developers to use a variety of tools, like Java, PHP, Ruby and Eclipse, when developing applications for Windows Azure. But the company is going to step up its Java support for Azure in the coming weeks and months, elevating Java to a “first-class citizen” in the Microsoft cloud realm. View the full article

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  2. So what’s a developer to make of Microsoft’s messaging (or lack thereof) about Silverlight at its premiere developer conference? View the full article

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  3. Today, Microsoft’s programming model for the cloud is .Net. At some point in the future, it may become Orleans. View the full article

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  4. Started by AWS,

    A number of financial analysts and company watchers (including yours truly) have wondered whether the company’s seeming lack of an immediate strategy to directly address the growth of the iPad and Android consumer slates would come back to bite it. Not too surprisingly, Microsoft officials are insisting that Windows PCs and tablets are what customers want and what they will get. View the full article

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  5. Microsoft is making available for download on October 28 another new test build of Internet Explorer 9. View the full article

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  6. Microsoft officials shared more information about cloud technologies and programs that the company is prepping for Azure developers during the opening day of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference on October 28. View the full article

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  7. Started by KeefBaker,

    Do I have a weird one for you guys! We have a 2008 terminal server where we remap C to N and then use a subst command via a login script to map the users personal folder to c: Basically due to some bespoke software that requires user-specific data on a C: drive. This is something we've never had an issue with in 2003/2000 but with 2008 something weird is happening. Intermittently it works beautifully, it's visible in explorer, the right folder, everything and then there are times when c: doesn't appear in explorer. Any yet... subst thinks its substituted and the apps that rely on the c drive data are working fine. It just appears not to be visible This h…

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  8. Sometimes Microsoft really surprises me, simply by doing the right thing. And Office 365 appears to be that kind of welcome surprise: A version of Office in the cloud, one that is affordable for most businesses. View the full article

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  9. Microsoft will be releasing its Q1 2011 earnings on October 28 this week. And on the 28th and 29th, the company will be holding its first Redmond-based Professional Developers Conference. But there have been lots of other Microsoft-related happenings over the past few days (and it’s only Tuesday). View the full article

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  10. Another Microsoft-germinated project has left the building and is now under the auspices of the Outercurve Foundation. The latest to go is Microsoft Research’s Scientific Workflow Workbench — codenamed Project Trident. View the full article

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  11. In my first feature focus article for Windows Phone 7, I take a look at hubs, the panoramic, integrated experiences that really differentiate this platform from the competition. View the full article

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  12. Ray Ozzie may be a lame duck at this point, as he will soon be leaving his Chief Software Architect post at Microsoft. But that hasn’t stopped him from publishing an updated assessment of Microsoft’s strategy and products. View the full article

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  13. In the latest episode of the Windows Weekly podcast, Leo and Paul discuss Windows 7's first anniversary with 240 million licenses sold, the start of the Windows Phone 7 rollout, Paul's Windows Phone 7 review, the first Windows Phones, the pain of switching Windows Live IDs, Office 365, Ray Ozzie is leaving Microsoft, Xbox 360 sales successes, and the first Google TVs. View the full article

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  14. In this week's blockbuster, Windows Phone-oriented Mailbag, Windows Phone and Zune Pass, Windows Phone and Zune Pass with two users, Windows Phone app performance, switching from iTunes to Zune, Windows Phone and tasks, Windows Phone and ActiveSync, unlocked Windows Phones, reinstalling Windows Phone apps, Windows Phone and multiple Exchange-type accounts, Windows Phone and rSAP, Windows Phone and Zune music sync, and Windows Phone Secrets availability. View the full article

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  15. Netflix is this week's Windows Phone 7 App of the Week selection, and it's a must-have for the millions of people who enjoy the Netflix streaming video service. Fortunately, the Windows Phone client is one of the best I've seen. View the full article

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  16. The OpenStack project — an open-source cloud-computing platform created by RackSpace, NASA and a growing list of partners — is getting some support from Microsoft. View the full article

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  17. Started by Ken0683,

    Hello everyone, I have some specific folders on a 2008 SP2 server in which I am trying to set permissions. Basically I have added a domain group to the local administrators group on the server. So, anyone who is a member of the domain group should be able to log into the server as an administrator. However, on some folders on this server I set the permissions so that ONLY the local Administrator group has any access rights. I have removed the local user group from the permissions. After removing the local User group from this folder I keep getting a message that I do not have permission to access this folder even though my user account is a member of the local adm…

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  18. As of today, October 22, PC makers are no longer allowed by Microsoft to preload Windows XP on new PCs. That means no more new XP Home netbooks should be hitting the shelves. View the full article

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  19. Started by ecg,

    The smtp services does not start with iis 6.0 on Win 2008 svr. 1721 error not enough resources . I tried to edit the registry to change the vaule under internet but could not locate the internet folder . Is there any other way to troubleshoot the same ??

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  20. The handwriting was on the wall: Microsoft was leaning away from supporting the IronRuby language. It turns out that was true. And ditto with its complement, IronPython. View the full article

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  21. On October 21, Amazon.com announced a new, free entry-level tier for new Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. Is Microsoft going to retaliate? Sounds like something may be happening. View the full article

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  22. At the Gartner Symposium on October 21, CEO Steve Ballmer was asked what he considered to be Microsoft’s riskiest product bet. His answer? The next version of Windows. Huh? View the full article

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  23. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the launch of Windows 7. To celebrate, Microsoft is releasing new numbers, claiming that the company has sold 240 million licenses of the product to date. View the full article

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  24. Microsoft officials have yet to make the formal release-to-manufacturing announcement, but they did say that Microsoft’s Lync Server 2010 will be generally available on November 17. View the full article

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  25. I am not a reviewer. I also am not a smartphone user. So how the heck did I end up with not one, but two, Windows Phone 7 review units? (And more importantly, what do I think?) View the full article

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