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Via the Access 14 developer kitchen, Microsoft is preparing to offer a taste of Office 14. The Redmond giant has so far offered little official details on the successor of the Office 2007 System which shipped concomitantly with Windows Vista at the end of January 2007.

Microsoft is gearing up to go big with its plans for its own version of its hosted development platform later this month. But Amazon.com isn’t sitting idly by, waiting for Microsoft to rain on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Lawyers representing Microsoft in the "Windows Vista Capable" case filed a declaration by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today, in which Ballmer says he was "not involved in any of the operational decisions about the Windows Vista Capable program."

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.

Although the largest PC makers can't sell XP anymore (except for ultra-low-cost machines), they can sell Vista Ultimate and Vista Business machines with XP discs in the box, or even Vista machines that are "factory downgraded" to Windows XP.

Less than a week ago, Microsoft started to roll out Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 to users of its e-mail service. It didn't take long for those lucky few users that got the service to realize that they weren't so lucky after all. On the Windows Live Hotmail Technical Support Blog a post entitled "Problem seeing your Hotmail Folders" recently appeared with the following body:

Through ACM's partnership with the MSDN AA Program (Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance), ACM Student Members receive free and unlimited access to about 100+ software packages. ACM Student Members also have access to the MSDN AA Public Forum, a place where MSDN AA users cfan ask questions about a range of topics including software availability, installation, available resources, and more.

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.

A new survey shows Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP with business users, with more enterprises confessing to checking out the unreleased Windows 7 OS than its predecessor.

As we reported on last week, Microsoft has been prepping a big refresh for Windows Live Hotmail users. Starting this week, users should begin noticing changes to their interface. Due to the huge user base and multiple servers that power Hotmail, not all users will get the new interface at once.