While most readers of the happenings in the tech world may think that nothing Microsoft does is worth noting, let alone reporting on, there are actually a growing number of people who are saying some good things about the company.

Microsoft:

• Russian caught up in spy probe worked at Microsoft – The Microsoft Blog
  Alexey Karetnikov, a 12th person detained by the U.S. government in an investigation of a Russian spy ring, worked for Microsoft, according to reports.
• Microsoft: ‘If we don’t cannibalize our existing business, others will’ - Mary Jo Foley
  That’s from a slide deck from a one of many Microsoft presentations this week at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference, where company officials are working to get the 14,000 attendees onboard with Microsoft’s move to the cloud.
• Microsoft pays mobile app developers to catch up to iPhone and Android – MobileBeat
  After weeks of rumors that Microsoft was trying to lure developers away from Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android mobile platforms to bolster its upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform

Windows Live & Bing:

• You choose, Bing gives! – Bing
  Every day students use Bing to learn and explore, so we have a vested interest in seeing them succeed
• Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 beta full installer now available – LiveSide
  When Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 public beta was released less than a month ago, the download website http://explore.live.com offered only the web installer, with no full installer available.
• Windows Live Web Messenger will support Facebook Chat too (with screenshot) – LiveSide
  Few months ago before Windows Live Wave 4 was announced, we were first to tell you that Windows Live Messenger (the client application) will support interoperability with Facebook Chat.
• What People are Saying about Social Networking in Windows Live (wave 4) – Dare Obasanjo
  Many moons ago when we were planning the set of social features we would build into the next version of Windows Live
• He Thinks Bing Can: Microsoft Search Head Satya Nadella a Year Later – Kara Swisher
  Yesterday, Microsoft Online Service SVP Satya Nadella–also known as the search-dude-in-chief–presided over the Search Summit, to update the media on the progress of the Bing service.
• Update on the rollout of the new Hotmail – Inside Windows Live
  The Hotmail rollout continues to go along smoothly and we’re right on track with our release plan, having now upgraded nearly 50 million accounts on several different clusters.

Windows Phone 7:

• Wired on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 strategy: “Suck it, iTunes and Android.” – WMPoweruser
  Windows Phone 7 is garnering some quite positive press, and recent announcements has convinced Wired that Microsoft does have a plan to be competitive with the iPhone and Android.
• Obfuscate your Windows Phone 7 Code – Phone 7
  A problem a lot of developers worry about is the reverse engineering of their code. Using freely available tools, it can often be easy to extract the source code from a compiled assembly
• Windows Phone 7 Market Place Idea – WMPoweruser
  This last week I have been thinking of how MS will implement their marketplace on their main hub, and here is the way I would do it.
• Windows Phone 7 gets cloudy – Steve Clayton
  Aaron over on the Windows Phone blog published a post yesterday that is getting a good amount of coverage, most notably around how Windows Phone 7 will connect to the cloud.
• Some WP7 Rumours….. – Phone 7
  WMPoweruser has come across a post from the Audacious Meteor blog that has leaked out a few rumours.

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