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Microsoft has 35 different feature teams building Windows 8. The list provides some new official confirmation and additional clues on what to expect with the next Windows release. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft CRM Online and Office 365 users were hit with outages to their cloud services on August 17. Microsoft has yet to respond as to what’s going on. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is continuing to inch toward the roll-out of Mango, the next version of its Windows Phone operating system. The company just made available to developers a new Silverlight toolkit for the Mango release. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft has no plans to follow VMware’s lead with new pricing/licensing changes in the virtualization space that have led to VMware customer outcry. In fact, with Windows 8, Microsoft is taking the opposite tack, officials said. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is cautioning users of its BPOS cloud suite of applications against attempting to manually migrate to Office 365 and is advising them to wait until September for the transition period to begin. Source: All About Microsoft

Starting October 1, Microsoft is making adjustments to its Windows Azure pricing and terminology in the hopes of attracting developers building and running smaller apps on its cloud platform. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft kicked off a new Windows 8 engineering blog about a month before the company is expected to release a first widespread test build of the next version of Windows. Source: All About Microsoft

Does Google’s acquisition of Motorola mean it’s finally time for Microsoft to buy Nokia or RIM? I still don’t see the potential gains from a handset-maker purchase offsetting the losses. Source: All About Microsoft

With the Google announcement that it intends to buy Motorola Mobility, the Microsoft vs. Motorola patent battle just took a new turn. Source: All About Microsoft

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Microsoft has overhauled its innovation pipeline from both a technology and process standpoint. Here are five slides that explain some of the changes made. Source: All About Microsoft

The Microsoft Tellme team is working with the Bing, Windows Phone, Kinect/Xbox, Azure and other Microsoft teams to add new speech-centric capabilities to Microsoft and third-party products in the coming year-plus. Source: All About Microsoft

If you’re among those going to the Windows 8 Build conference next month, be advised the scheduled pre-conference is no longer happening. Source: All About Microsoft

Information about Microsoft’s successor to Windows Phone OS Mango (codenamed Tango) is slowly starting to leak. Source: All About Microsoft

Windows 7’s share of the PC market is continuing to grow steadily, while Apple’s, Linux’s and Google’s shares are making slow inroads, according to new worldwide PC usage data from Gartner Inc. Source: All About Microsoft

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Dolby Laboratories executives shared some information about Microsoft’s Windows 8 during an earnings call this week. What are the implications of the disclosure? Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft announced plans for its Windows 8 developer conference in mid-September, known as Build, back on June 1. As of August 1, the Build Web site now shows the conference to be sold out. Online registration has sold out without Microsoft posting an agenda for the three- four-day event (five, if you include the pre-con day). Early-bird discounted Build registration ended as of August 1, as well. While Microsoft is, no doubt, hiding the agenda to further the corporate mission of keeping Windows 8 features under wraps as long as possible, the “shhh” strategy has been a double-edged sword. I’ve heard from several developers that they were unable to convince their managers that they should attend because of a lack of information as to the sessions. Source: All About Microsoft

According to a new report, there are as many as 6,000 references to MinWin in an internal Windows 8 client build. This may provide more clues and validation of Microsoft’s virtualization plans for the coming operating system release. As the clock ticks down toward the Microsoft Build conference, discoveries about what’s inside Windows 8 are continuing to trickle out. The latest — from ITworld’s Sandro Villinger — has to do with MinWin. Villinger found that there are between 5,000 and 6,000 references to MinWin in a Milestone 2 build of Windows 8 that he examined. He speculated in an August 3 article that MinWin may figure prominently in Microsoft’s virtualization plans with Windows 8. MinWin, for those needing a refresher, the “guts” of Windows (the kernel, hardware abstraction layer, TCP/IP, file systems, drivers and other core system services). Microsoft included an implementation of MinWin as part of Windows 7, officials acknowledged. But it sounds like MinWin will be more prominent in Windows 8. Source: All About Microsoft

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Skype, which still is not officially part of Microsoft, is continuing to make its own policy and strategy decisions which may or may not mesh with Microsoft’s own directions. Source: All About Microsoft

Steven VanRoekel’s first job at Microsoft was as a premier support and presales technical advisor. On August 4, he became the new U.S. technology officer. Source: All About Microsoft

Google is accusing the coalition that recently purchased 6,000 Nortel patents as engaging in an anticompetitive strategy. Source: All About Microsoft