You had better watch what you tweet if you are a part of the Windows Phone team at Microsoft, as former employee Joe Marini has learned. He talked about things that were apparently not up for public discussion, and is now no longer with the company. Marini was the program manager for the Windows Phone web platform. Microsoft is actually famous for being hard to be fired from, but Marini seems to have found a recipe that works....

This piece of news comes from the ‘you already know, but now you are sure’ department: Microsoft employee profiles on the LinkedIn website have confirmed that the company is indeed working on the successor to the Xbox 360. Next we’ll find out that Windows Phone 8 is real, and that Office 15 is not some mythical goose chase. Anyway. Look, we’ve known this for ages, but there are more than a few tidbits to share....

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Dolby recentlyinformed its investorsthat its DVD playback technologies are not “currently included” in Windows 8. The company’s shares traded lower on the news. Dolby’s software was included in four versions of Windows 7. The company stated that previously its “mix of PC licensing revenue [had] increasingly shifted towards the operating system,” a trend that appears to be over, so long as Microsoft does not radically change its product direction. Dolby’s statement on the matter said the following: “[W]e have recently learned that our technologies are not currently included in the Windows 8 operating system under development....