News to know: Microsoft; Amazon; SOA; AMD

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Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft bends (a little) on Windows 7 due date

• Five unanswered questions after Microsoft's Q3 earnings call
• Larry Dignan: Microsoft's mixed quarter: 'We expect weakness to continue'
• Phil Wainewright: Microsoft's software-plus-services disinformation
• Foley: Microsoft finances open-source NFS v4 implementation for Windows
• Microsoft Big Brains: Burton Smith
• Ed Bott: Microsoft prepares Windows Anytime Upgrade, v2.

  

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Sam Diaz: Amazon: "Kindle exceeded our most optimistic expectations"; beats Q1 estimates

AMR Research: Process Readiness: Are you ready to run a Marathon?

• Joe McKendrick: SOA market growing 17% a year; to reach $10 billion by 2015

Dancho Danchev: Conficker's estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion

• Zack Whittaker: How can Internet security be stepped up?
• Richard Koman: White House takes control of cybersecurity
• Obama administration previews cybersecurity policy
• The Cold War moves to cyberspace

Larry Dignan: Are netbooks really junky?

• Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Notice to Tim Cook: Apple Has A Netbook. It's Just Not Competitive.

• Tom Foremski: Is MySQL done under Oracle or is there a fork in its future?

CNET News: Joost shopping itself to satellite and cable providers 

Heather Clancy: AMD's latest power play

• Seagate slashes power used by its Barracuda hard drives
• Download this: Tripp Lite's new power-saving mode

Andrew Mager: YouTube's social toolbar needs work

Twitter: The CIO's new best friend?

Electronic Pulp: Salma Hayek's Apple MobileMe account hacked, couldn't have been easier 

Verizon HTC Touch Diamond photos

Jason O'Grady: AT&T's iPhone vs. Pre comparison chart

• How did "Baby Shaker" slip through the cracks?
• CNET News: Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker

Sean Portnoy: Netgear, D-Link roll out coax-Ethernet adapter kits to network your home theater

EMC: 'We expect IT spending to improve'

What developers want from the cloud

Richard Koman: Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association. Techmeme

Andrew Nusca: Report: Lost laptops cost companies $50,000 apiece

Harry Fuller: Another greentech challenge: the perfect dust filter

• Trend spotting: Oprah goes green

IBM's latest DB2 woos Oracle customers

John Morris: AMD pushes Phenom II X4 to 3.2GHz

AllThingsD: Computer Buyers Have to Consider System Upgrades

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" is ready for download - Go get it!

Gadget Gal's daily deal: iPod nano, LG 42-inch LCD HDTV, Nokia bluetooth headset

Jennifer Bergen: App stores to thank for iPhone and Android growth

Open APIs for secure social enterprise computing drive innovation

Dana Blankenhorn: Why it is always 1986 in health IT

• Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health IT

• Gallery: Doctor - please report to the touchscreen

Should the database market be interesting?

Another term for open source

Andrew Nusca: Time '100 Most Influential' hacked

• Would you pay for a vanity URL on Facebook?

Janice Chen: How to make a 1,000+ megapixel panorama with your budget point and shoot