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A year ago, I wondered when and whether Microsoft would make Bob Muglia, head of the company's Server and Tools business, one of the company's presidents. On January 5, 2009, that happened.

I'm not buying the rumored 15,000-person layoff that first percolated on Mini-Microsoft's blog before Christmas. There is a long legacy -- and lots of layers of fat -- protecting Microsoft from annihilation. This isn't a Microsoft apologist talking; it's a Microsoft realist.

It's the eve of MacWorld Expo and Microsoft officials are out talking up the idea of the "Apple tax" again.

If your travel budget hasn't evaporated into thin air -- or if you want to follow along vicariously -- here is a list of some of the conferences and events in 2009 where Microsoft will likely show and/or release new products.

Users with 30 GB Zunes are reporting their players are bricking. There is still no word from Microsoft about what's causing the problems or what users should do to fix their devices.

Much is being made of Microsoft's recent patent application for a pay-as-you-go service model. But many seem to forget Microsoft has been experimenting with this model for the past couple of years via several different programs.

It's time for me to give my crystal ball another spin. Here are ten things I think Microsoft will -- and won't -- do in 2009.

Now that Windows 7 Beta 1 -- which the Windows team built on December 12, 2008 -- has started leaking on torrents and is poised to make its public debut at the Consumer Electronics show, it's time to revisit Microsoft's "feature-complete" promise.

ComScore published its November search-query share numbers on December 19. The news wasn't good for Live Search.

The "All About Microsoft" CodeTracker is a chart of Microsoft codenames that I'll be updating every month. If you're a Microsoft customer, partner, analyst, competitor (or even employee), you might find it useful. The free December update is available for download now.

In yet another reprieve for Windows XP, Microsoft is allowing system builders to continue to obtain copies of Windows XP to preload on PCs through June 30, 2009.

Microsoft released to manufacturing on December 19 Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (R2), its core unified-communications platform. R2 is a “minor” upgrade to OCS 2007, which Microsoft rolled out in the fall of 2007.

A couple of new postings regarding Microsoft's music marketplace goals got me thinking more about what might be part of Zune Mobile -- as well as the broader category of premium mobile services aimed at consumers.

There's talk that Microsoft has signed off internally on the Beta 1 Windows 7 bits internally. Word is the build number of what goes out to testers will be 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400. What do all those digits mean? And when will testers actually get their hands on the code?

It's that time of year again: Here come the year-end round-ups and look-aheads. First up is a list of the ten posts on this blog in 2008 that got the most page views and the most Talkbacks.

If you're running Internet Explorer (IE) 7, you can go get the critical patch Microsoft released on December 17 to thwart a serious security vulnerability discovered earlier this week.

Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsbergis spending most of his time and energy on C# 4.0, the next release of the programming language he invented. But Hejlsberg also is thinking ahead to some new programming concepts and models,that will affect Microsoft's future directions in the developer space.

It was just over a year ago that Microsoft's search team was wrestling with back-to-back executive departures. Now it's the end of 2008 and here we are again in the midst of more Live Search shake-ups.

Like Windows 7 Beta 1, the next test build of Internet Explorer (IE) 8 isn't due until early in the new year. And as is the case with Win7, there are lots of expectations for the fixes that will be part of that build.

Microsoft sent to a select group of testers on December 16 invitations to participate in Windows 7 Beta 1. Individuals who received the invites are considered "tech beta testers." Here is part of the note Microsoft sent to the invitees.