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Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phone 7
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Microsoft readying Hadoop for Microsoft Azure
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Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
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Internet Explorer 9 will only support H.264 for video
Microsoft is supporting H.264 in IE9 but not its own system, VC-1, or the open source Ogg Theora. It will continue to not support Adobe Flash, though you can expect it to support its own rival system, Silverlight.
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