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Users of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) suite are reporting on July 19 yet another “service disruption” — one that sounds very much like the June 22 one that affected a number of users of Microsoft’s cloud service. Source: All About Microsoft

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, shortcomings of Windows 7 as a tablet operating system is the fact that it is not touch-centric it is still designed first and foremost for keyboard/mouse input. Microsoft plans to remedy this with Windows 8. But that’s hardly the only touch-centric technology it has in the hopper. Last week, [...] Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is building a “digital learning archive,” which may be akin to its HealthVault electronic-medical records system. Source: All About Microsoft

I use hmail server and xmail server on my servers. I also have Exchange setup on the corporate network.

Microsoft execs have been talking up Avatar Kinect — the ability to conduct virtual meetings among avatars using the Kinect sensor — for months. Finally, the release date for the technology seems close at hand. Source: All About Microsoft

Make sure on the server that you have rdp settings set to allow both secure and insecure connections. XP can not connect if it's only set to secure connections.

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Microsoft has postponed its usual fall Mediaroom IPTV Technical Conference until some time in early 2012. Does the delay mean Orapa is behind schedule? Source: All About Microsoft

With Google phasing out its Google Health electronic-records service, Microsoft is wooing Google Health users and developers to move their data and applications over to Microsoft’s HealthVault alternative. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft plans to share more information on its “Roslyn” compiler-as-a-service (CaaS) project during its annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit this week. Source: All About Microsoft

Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Division, has resurfaced at EMC, the parent company of one of Microsoft’s foremost rivals. Source: All About Microsoft

If you’re a Windows watcher, circle this date on your calendar: April 10, 2012. That’s the date when mainstream support for Windows Vista officially ends. And it cannot come soon enough for Microsoft, whose public image was badly damaged by the massively unliked Vista. If the rumors about a possible Windows 8 release in April 2012 are true, it will be an almost perfect changing of the guard. But vanquishing the ghost of Windows Vista is the easy challenge for Microsoft. Windows XP is still hanging around on stage, bumping into scenery and generally interfering with Microsoft’s careful messaging about all the cool and useful stuff it’s doing today. I thought about that date as I watched the keynote addresses from this week’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Some of the people I follow on Twitter were disappointed that Microsoft didn’t divulge more details about Windows 8 or even publicly release a platform preview. Source: Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

Microsoft officials showed off on July 12 at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Windows Server 8, the server complement of Windows 8 client, is on the same development track and path as Windows 8 client. If we Microsoft watchers are right, both Windows 8 client and server should be out in 2012, possibly in the first half of the year. Microsoft is touting Windows Server 8 as a key private-cloud building block, which means virtualization will be critical to the next release. Microsoft demonstrated only one of what officials said would be several of more than 100 new features coming in the next version of Windows Server: The next version of its Hyper-V hypervisor. Specifically, the Softies showed off what they are calling Hyper-V Replica. In a demonstration from Jeff Woolsey, the Principal Program Manager Lead for Windows Server Virtualization, noted that Microsoft has heard from its customers that it needed to provide more virtual processor support. He said the new Hyper-V will support more than 16 virtual processors per machine. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making available for download the first release a new piece of cloud analytics technology developed by its eXtreme Computing Group that is known as Project Daytona. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is adding more and more Microsoft-hosted apps to its Office 365 cloud platform. Latest likely additions: Project Online and Visio Online. Source: All About Microsoft

What is Microsoft’s mystery “Tulalip” social/search app? I’m thinking it could be FUSE Labs’ Spindex. Here’s why. Source: All About Microsoft

BizTalk, Microsoft’s enterprise integration and messaging server, used to be on a fairly well-defined path. But that roadmap has gotten a lot more vague since Microsoft shipped BizTalk Server 2010 last fall. Source: All About Microsoft

Does an HTML5 browser running on all Microsoft platforms go far enough in terms of enabling the Redmondians to create their promised unified ecosystem? Source: All About Microsoft

On the heels of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK), Microsoft is making available a spinoff of it that works with its robotics development toolkit product. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft will be opening 75 Microsoft Stores in the next two to three years, said Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner during Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference on Wednesday. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft Windows Phone President Andy Lees’ restatement of Microsoft’s tablet positioning has kicked off again the debate as to whether tablets and PCs are one and the same. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft officials showed off on July 12 at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft reconfirmed that it will be rolling out the next version of its Dynamics CRM Online service before the end of calendar 2011. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making a beta of the next release of its Windows Intune available for download on July 11, officials announced during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is expected to deliver the third Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the next version of its SQL Server database during the Worldwide Partner Conference the week of July 11, according to some of my contacts. Source: All About Microsoft