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Microsoft Q2 Earnings Report Thoughts

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Today Microsoft shared with the financial world how their second quarter, which ended on 31 December 2011, went and showed that it had mixed results.

There is more information on the specific earnings at the Microsoft News Center – Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $20.9 Billion in Second Quarter.

I want to . . .

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Windows Phone Office Hub Docs Encounter Issues After New SkyDrive Update

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Yesterday we told you about the major updates the Microsoft SkyDrive cloud service received. Well today Omar Shahine, the SkyDrive Group Program Manager, has taken to the Windows Live Blog to help sort out an issue being reported which is related to documents on your Windows Phone 7 in the Office Hub . . .

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SkyDrive Receives A Major Update

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Omar Shahine, the Group Program Manager for SkyDrive.com, has posted details of an update for SkyDrive.com that will be live at anytime.

These updates really show the willingness of the SkyDrive team to make the service work the way users expect it to perform and they have done that by listening to . . .

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Microsoft Gadgets Gallery Goes Gone

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Our friends over at Liveside reported today that the Gadget Gallery for Windows is no more.  If you browse to that old address at http://gallery.live.com you are going to be greeted with a message from Microsoft that talks about why it is gone:

The Windows Live Gallery has been retired. In order . . .

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Windows Live SkyDrive Integration in Windows 8

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Part of today’s keynote about Windows 8 at the Microsoft Build Conference showed off the high level of integration between Windows Live and Windows 8.  From synching (or roaming) user settings between machines to easy access to your files in the Windows Live cloud the integration is seamless in windows 8 – . . .

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Windows Live Mesh Beta Ends 31 March 2011

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The Windows Live Mesh team has sent out emails to users who have previously registered as using the Live Mesh Beta to remind them the beta is coming to an end on 31 March 2011.

It is a handy piece of software and I use it to keep pictures and screenshots for . . .

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