MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL The three most active funds and stocks in pre-market trading on the Nasdaq (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) were Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) Vodafone Group (NASDAQ:VOD) and PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ:QQQ) as of 9:00 a.m. EST. Investors traded 5 532 306 shares of Microsoft which was down $1.06 or 3.79%. Steve Sinofsky has left Microsoft. He headed the Windows unit and worked with Microsoft for 23 years. Julie Larson-Green will replace him and oversee all software and related hardware. Investors exchanged 764 634 shares of Vodafone which was down $0.95 or 3.60%. According to the New York Times Vodafone wrote down the ...