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Project “Vancouver,” Microsoft’s new cloud-based social-analytics service, is available to testers interested in the idea of integrating social Web data into business applications. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is planning to launch a version of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK) licensed for commercial use in early 2012. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft has begun moving new and existing Photosynths to Windows Azure and its Azure CDN. The company also is cutting the price of Azure storage. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft rolled out its latest Office 2007 service pack and System Center 2012 test builds invited press to a Windows Phone event on November 7 and trotted out its latest “technology in the future” video this week. Source: All About Microsoft

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New Windows Phones aren’t the only fruit from the Microsoft-Nokia partnership. Their combined resources will benefit developers, too, the pair said at Nokia World. Source: All About Microsoft

There are no front-facing cameras on Nokia’s first two Windows Phone handsets. Some users are asking why. Source: All About Microsoft

Here’s what’s here … and not.. with the first two Windows Phones from Nokia that were unveiled at the opening day of the Nokia World trade show. Source: All About Microsoft

Join us for our live blog of the first day of Nokia World, where Microsoft’s biggest Windows Phone OEM is expected to unveil its first Windows Phones. Source: All About Microsoft

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The Nokia World rumors are flying fast and furious as to which new Windows Phones the company will unveil this week, and when carriers around the world will begin offering them. Source: All About Microsoft

With a newly minted agreement with Compal Electronics, Microsoft officials say that they now have more than half of the worldwide ODMs for Android and Chrome OS devices now paying them patent royalties. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is poised to deliver new updates to its CRM Online and CRM on-premises offerings. Here’s a list of the promised features. Source: All About Microsoft

Lodsys has not gone after Windows developers with claims that they’re violating the company’s in-app purchasing patents. But could this happen with Windows 8? Source: All About Microsoft

Both cloud and on-premises versions of its Office products were the star in Microsoft’s first fiscal 2012 quarter results. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft has made available a test build of its “Roslyn” compiler as a service technology. The final release will be some time after Visual Studio 2012, officials are now confirming. Source: All About Microsoft

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

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

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

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