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Microsoft is selling a new set of services and tools for political campaigns and activist groups. The new offering, called CampaignReady, is based on an interactive platform called TownHall that runs in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) began shipping its long-awaited Visual Studio 2010 development toolset Monday, offering support for Windows 7, Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, and the latest releases of SharePoint Server  and Windows Phone. Microsoft also shipped .NET  Framework 4 Monday and said Silverlight 4, a new version of the Web rich-application framework, will be released later [...]