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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

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

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

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

Microsoft is launching a new holiday ad campaign during NBC Sunday Night Football with the theme “It’s a Great Time to Be a Family.” Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is set to begin rolling out new updates to its Office 365, SQL Azure and Dynamics CRM Online services in the coming weeks/months. Source: All About Microsoft

Skype is officially now part of Microsoft, as of October 13, with the closing of the $8.5 billion acquisition. Source: All About Microsoft

Have you check the monitor resolution to make sure it is set correctly? Have you tried to have the monitor adjust the the screen size? On most LCD displays there is a button that you can press that will self adjust the height and width to fit full screen.

The next version of Microsoft’s Dynamics NAV ERP product, which will be available as an Azure-hosted service, is due out in the Fall of 2012. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is looking into reports by some Windows Phone Mango users of problems they’re experiencing when accessing Office 365 and Exchange Server 2003. Source: All About Microsoft

Quanta Computer, a designer/developer that helped create the RIM PlayBook and Amazon Kindle Fire products, has signed a patent-licensing deal with Microsoft. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is close to debuting a build of its “Project Vancouver” social-analytics services built on SQL Azure. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making its Internet Explorer 9.0.3 release, a cumulative security update, available via Windows Update starting on October 12. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is stepping up its support of Hadoop with new Windows Azure and Windows Server distributions in order to better support users’ big data and unstructured data needs. Source: All About Microsoft

The Microsoft Surface 2.0, known as the Samsung SUR40, isn’t going to be out in 2011, after all. Samsung has pushed back availability to January 2012. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making some Windows 8 UI concessions but isn’t going so far as to allow users to circumvent the tiled Metro screen altogether. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft isn’t sharing its public-cloud roadmaps like it used to. Last year, the Windows Azure team outlined its delivery plans in detail. Here’s a look at what’s there and what’s still missing. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft and Oracle are on opposite sides when it comes to the importance of multitenancy support to their respective public-cloud platforms. Source: All About Microsoft

Dell isn’t commenting about its future plans for supporting Windows Phone beyond its commitment to roll out Mango on existing Dell Venue Pro handsets. Source: All About Microsoft

The European antitrust authorities have given the nod to Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype. Source: All About Microsoft

Users of Office 2007 can expect a third service pack (SP) for the product before the end of this calendar year. Mainstream, free support for Office 2007 ends next April. Source: All About Microsoft

According to a new survey, users seem very interested in Microsoft Winpad tablets, but what are their options for the next year or so? Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is working on increasing the performance and reliability of its Bing search engine via its Tiger, Cosmos and Scope work in its Online Services datacenters. Source: All About Microsoft

There are reports circulating that Microsoft might be considering buying all or parts of Yahoo. Is there any way this move could make sense? Source: All About Microsoft