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We are probably all aware of what a Harry Potter style newspaper looks like (The Daily Prophet). Moving images on the page, playing out a newsworthy scene or a wanted poster. Such newspapers are surely that of fantasy, right? Not according to BBC News.

While many industry observers obsessed this week over a report that claimed Microsoft will offer two different  Windows Mobile versions to phone makers in the coming year, they glossed over the real news. If Digitimes’s August 19 story is correct, Windows Mobile 7 is running about a half-year behind schedule.

Microsoft is getting ready to make another push of Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which consists of a slew of general product fixes and updates, including improvements to charting functionality in Excel as well as better stability and performance for Outlook.

With today's release of Windows Live Movie Maker 14, Microsoft has also released a Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) patch for all Windows Live applications. At the time of writing, it is not known what is new or what has been fixed with this wave of QFE patches. These patches apply to the Windows Live 2008 (Wave 3) applications.

Mozilla executives today began a concerted campaign to prod European Union (EU) antitrust regulators to demand more from Microsoft than the browser "ballot screen" Windows will offer users later this year.

Windows Server 2008 R2 is the next iteration of Windows Server operating system, which has been RTMed with build version 6.1.7600.16385 together with Windows 7. Microsoft is now officially releasing the ISO image for Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software, which allowing administrators and users to install Windows Server 2008 R2 to evaluate the new operating system for 180 days for free.

They don’t call Microsoft the platforms company for nothing. Thanks to a tip from reader Boldizsár, some developer documentation on MSDN is indicating Microsoft will indeed be backporting the new Scenic Ribbon UI framework introduced in Windows 7 to its misunderstood predecessor, Windows Vista (and Windows Server 2008).

Screenshots have surfaced of the suspected Google Chrome OS, without any reliable source or confirmation to back up the claims.

Microsoft sympathizes with people pushing what it calls the "Die IE6, Die" campaign, but argued today that it simply can't put a stake in the old browser's heart.

With the end of one operating system’s development comes the beginning of another; arguably the most fun time of it all.