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Here;s a round-up of Microsoft labor-related (as well as other) news around the eve with the lengthy Labor Day weekend right here within the U.S.Microsoft is confirming it really is cutting 27 additional staff in Redmond and Bellevue,Office 2007 Product Key, Wash. offices, successful November one. No word on which teams/products those 27 are component of. Microsoft officials mentioned in the commence of this yr the business planned to lay off around five,Windows 7 Ultimate,000 employees among then and mid-2010. When Microsoft reduce its 2nd big round of personnel in May,Windows 7 Ultimate, CEO Steve Ballmer;s stated that “with this announcement,Office 2007 Standard Key, we are mostly but not all done with the planned five,000 job eliminations by June 2010.” Microsoft officials won;t say how many of these 5,000 have been cut to date; I;d think the new 27 are component with the original 5,000 and not the commence of an extra round.Kai-Fu Lee is resigning from Google. Lee is the former head of Microsoft;s Interactive Services Division and most recently President of Google China. Lee is stated to be planning to disclose what he;ll be doing next on Sunday. From a story on PE Hub, it sounds like it can be somehow venture-related. Microsoft sued Google over its hiring of Lee in 2005.A Federal Court of Appeals is allowing Microsoft to continue to sell Microsoft Word, in spite of a patent-infringement case against it. Microsoft is appealing a ruling, which found the company to have infringed on a patent involving Custom XML code owned by plaintiff i4i. The appeal is set for September 23. I;ve heard Microsoft has an patch that would remove Custom XML from Phrase waiting inside the wings and ready to be pushed to customers immediately if it loses the appeal.Windows Mobile 7 in beta? UXEvangelist (a k a Stephen Chapman) discovered a Motorola exec;s bio on LinkedIn that mentions the existence of a Windows Mobile 7 beta. Both Chapman and I had heard that Microsoft was quite significantly along in its Windows Mobile 7 development and was aiming to get final code to phone makers in November this year. But there could have been a recent change in plans, via which Microsoft might deliver yet another interim release of Windows Mobile (something after 6.5) before Windows Mobile 7 shows up on new phones. If the latest rumors are true, Windows Mobile 7 is unlikely to debut before the end of 2010. Microsoft won;t discuss ship targets or plans for Windows Mobile 7.Novell;s Miguel de Icaza is at it again. His latest project is Mono Tools for Visual Studio, which is now in a closed Beta 1 release. “There are some common stumbling blocks that keep .NET applications from being able to run on Mono. These could be due to using parts of the .NET framework that Mono does not implement or implements differently,Windows 7 Professional Key, or reliance on native platform code like user32,” according to the new site for the tools. The tools allow developers to scan their apps for Mono compatibility, test them on Windows and Linux and package them up to run on Linux.