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The consumer push from Microsoft continued this week, with the retail launch of Kinect on November four and the opening of the latest Microsoft store in Oak Brook, Sick, the very same day.There;s additional consumer news coming next week, as well as some goodies for company consumers as well.On November six (Saturday),Office 2010 Professional Plus, Microsoft will be opening an additional new Microsoft Shop. This one will probably be in Bloomington, Minn.,Microsoft Office 2007, at the Mall of America. The Bellevue,Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, Wash., store is slated to open on November 18.On November 8, Microsoft and partners will make its 1st Windows Phone 7 phones readily available inside the U.S. on AT&T. The Samsung Focus and HTC Surround might be readily available in stores that day (no pre-orders allowed). The HTC HD7 might be obtainable from T-Mobile the same day, also.It is going to be interesting to see if the U.S. start is as plagued by telephone shortages as the earlier launches in other countries have been. Microsoft has more than 1,400 apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace now, the vast majority of which are games at this point.On November 8, Microsoft will kick off its TechEd Europe conference, which is targeted at IT professionals. From the docket,Windows 7 Home Premium, it looks like there will be lots of focus around the cloud, virtualization, its Lync PBX-competitor technology and far more.Microsoft is on tap to show off a new Windows 7 migration tool — “P2V Migration for Software Assurance” — at the conference. The P2V tool is a combination of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) and also the company’s Sysinternals Disk2 VHD product, and is currently in beta.The Silverlight vs. HTML 5 panel at the show should yield a few fireworks, as well.Other Microsoft tidbits from this past week about which I didn;t blog already:Microsoft has released F# 2.0 under the Apache 2.0 license: The Microsoft F# team made a new drop with the F# 2.0 compiler and core library available this week as part of the F# PowerPack Codeplex project — all of which is now under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. Previously, F# was accessible under a Microsoft Shared Source license. Microsoft moved IronRuby and IronPython under the Apache 2.0 license just before the corporation offloaded those development efforts to the community. It doesn;t sound as if that;s the provider;s intention with F#, however, as Microsoft recently integrated F# support directly into Visual Studio 2010.Microsoft is moving the Seadragon Ajax project to the Expression team: Seadragon Ajax is the JavaScript implementation with the Microsoft Live Labs Seadragon project. SeaDragon is a library for DeepZoom viewing. Microsoft is in the process of disbanding Live Labs, and is sending most of the remaining Live Labs projects and employees to work about the Bing team. It looks like Seadragon Ajax will have a several home.Microsoft may have yet another Azure prize-cut plan up its sleeve: About the heels of introducing the new “Extra Little Instance” pricing for entry-level Windows Azure developers, Microsoft may be readying another low-end pricing option, as cloud blogger Roger Jennings noted this week. Microsoft is surveying Azure consumers regarding their interest in a pay-per-use/consumption pricing model – something that would give Microsoft much more leverage against Google with its Google App Engine platform-as-a-service offering. Extra Modest instance offer doesn’t start until January 7, 2011 and requires participants to get Microsoft partners, Jennings said. But so far, there;s no start date,Windows 7 Product Key, or even guarantee, that Microsoft will end up fielding pay-per-use Azure pricing.