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Tech-Ed Roundup: Windows Phone 7, Azure, Top Tweets and More

Microsoft's Tech-Ed 2011 conference, which took place in Atlanta this year, just wrapped up. Here's a handy roundup of all of this week's conference news and analysis from our editors:

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Top Twitter Dispatches from Lee Pender
RCP Update Newsletter Editor Lee Pender was reporting, blogging and, yes, Tweeting live from the Tech-Ed conference floor -- despite being a vehement Twitter-hater. Here are some of his Twitter highlights from the opening keynote session:

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Gladys Rama (@GladysRama3) is the editorial director of Converge360.

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