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Nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house, nearly double the percentage that said they had users running Mac OS X two years ago, a research firm said today.
"Then, we were talking about onesies and twosies," said Laura DiDio, a research fellow at Yankee Group Research Inc. who conducted a survey of more than 700 senior IT administrators and C-level executives. "Now the number of actual users is very significant. A number of the businesses said that they had 50 or 100 or even several thousand Macs deployed."

So Microsoft’s Sinofsky had a pretty good dance with CNET about Windows 7, really not saying much of anything. But a picture’s worth a thousand words, right? Howzabout a ton of pics?

We can confirm these are indeed screen shots of the current build of Windows 7 as it will be introduced in 2010, but keep in mind that’s three years away and many changes might be made. We’re hoping it’s better than Vista.

Click the jump for lots of screen grab goodness.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) continued to release formerly closely held application protocol documentation Tuesday, posting 14,000 pages of information for Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007, and Exchange Server 2007 at MSDN, a Web site for developers.

The information released includes protocols that allow Exchange Server to communicate with Outlook and those used by Office and SharePoint to communicate with each other and with other Microsoft server products. Most of this information was available previously only under a Trade Secret license made available only to select partners.