News to know: Dell; Azure; Yahoo reorg; Facebook; Oracle

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Mary Jo Foley: Azure: One big, happy platform?

• Microsoft: Here are some of the Win 7 changes coming in the next build
• Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft outlines Windows 7 RC changes

Larry Dignan: Dell's fourth quarter sales stumble; Plans more cost cutting

Sam Diaz: Bartz announces new management structure at Yahoo but offers no details

• BBC hires Yahoo exec as CTO
• Yahoo CFO Jorgensen resigns
• Photos: The Bartz gang--a breakdown of Yahoo's reorg
• Techmeme

Dennis Howlett: Facebook's juvenile approach to TOS

• Sam Diaz: Facebook invites users to chime in on new Terms of Service
• Zack Whittaker: Facebook lets users govern worlds largest social network
• Facebook: Facebook Opens Governance of Service and Policy Process to Users

Gallery:

Best entry level retail laptop: the HP G60-235DX (right)

• Maybe a little too cheap: the Compaq Presario CQ60-215DX

• Howlett: Oracle innovation score: 1-0(1 RBI)
• AMR Research blog: SaaS: The supply management market's economic stimulus?
• Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us
• Dan Kusnetzky:What is cloud computing?
• Phil Wainewright: Another outage, another dashboard

• Joe McKendrick: 'Business-IT alignment' is dead... whatever it was
• CEO vs. CIO faceoff: Doing more with less has limits

• Microsoft 'Fix it' automates fixing Windows problems
• Dancho Danchev: Research: 76% of phishing sites hosted on compromised servers
• Oliver Marks: Girl Has Online Identity Stolen & Used Against Her

• AppleInsider: Apple, Psystar seek protective order in preparation for trial

• Fewer distractions on ebook readers give you better reading experience than on phones

• Image Gallery: Amazon's Kindle 2 has several improvements to lead the ebook reader field (right)

• Hard times hit Bangalore
• Dana Blankenhorn: Open source for hard times

Jennifer Leggio: Debunking social media myths? Put the FUD gun away

John Morris: Who's got the top 10-inch netbook?

O'Grady: More Snow Leopard screenshots and video leak out

Andrew Mager: A mashup of Twitter and Wikipedia: 140pedia.com

Christopher Dawson: See, really, Edu Apps is OK

• There must be a way to use this little guy
• Imagine if Twitter became a Google App

Harry Fuller: Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?

• Everybody needs...water. But there's optimism.