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Microsoft Windows to Go for Windows 8 is great idea, but instead of saving a desktop image to a USB stick, why not make the connection to the cloud instead? It's such an easy link, it's hard to believe Microsoft missed it.

While I remain somewhat skeptical about the ability to produce a truly cheap smart phone running the Boot to Gecko system, it's hard not to root for a standards-based approach running an extremely light-weight Linux kernel. Developers tired of developing apps for multiple platforms should also like it.

This we look at Linus Torvalds' openSUSE security tirade, the cloud as the great business equalizer and Siri in your Mercedes.

Android is a free OS and so far nobody has been able to get around the cost of hardware to produce a decent non-subsidized cell phone for $20. Telefonica Digital believes it can running the new Mozilla OS, but it's going to face some serious obstacles.

Andy Rubin, Google's Android head honcho, made a very public statement this week at Mobile World Congress about a firewall between the Android division and the company's new Android handset maker, Motorola Mobility. After "Don't Be Evil", perhaps Google should have learned to avoid such blanket declarations.

This week, we look at choosing between apps and HTML5, private cloud haters and the growing open academic journal movement (think open source journals).

Even though Amazon has far fewer apps than the Google Android Market, and the Kindle Fire has only been around for only a few months, the marketing clout of Amazon might prove to be the difference maker for developers.

Microsoft has been going after Google hard recently, and while Google deserves a lot of the grief it's getting, Microsoft's cloud FUD could come back to bite it by sending a negative cloud message to its own potential customers.

This we look at an Android security overview overview video, why legacy code means a slow transition from Win7 to Win8 and the developing textbook battle between open source and proprietary formats.

As apps find their way into the car, it's going to be yet another place for developers to worry about -- and it has unique requirements you might not find in other mobile devices. And it's worth noting that Ford introduced an open source app development platform just today.

Developers, tired of what they perceive as IT obstruction, are opting for NoOps where they provision resources using PaaS. It's working great and smart CIOs would be wise to let it continue

Like a good fantasy? Well, when you look at the battle going on today for the very soul of the Internet, it has all the elements of any epic fantasy including titans and trolls and back room deals and secret treaties.

IT is transforming from a top-down dictatorship to a service catalogue and it's not an easy transition, but if you saw how some perceive you as obstructionist, you might want to accelerate the change.

Lots of front-page bad news about Android malware, but instead of giving into FUD, educate yourself and more importantly educate your users about security fundamentals. And that's true no matter what mobile device you're using.

Even as Apple products make there way into the enterprise in increasing numbers, Apple still seems to ignore IT and its needs, leaving it in the words of Network World to adapt or die.

Another set of comScore US smart phone market share statistics and once again Microsoft lost ground. Maybe it's time to rethink this whole consumer approach to the market and take a hard look at the enterprise.

This week we explore, the top 20 IT job markets, the growing capability of HTML5 and what you can can learn from government cloud recommendations.

Even as Microsoft and RIM form deeper partnerships, what would make better sense would be to bring the two companies together to offer a secure mobile enterprise alternative.

As Google proposed a controversial new privacy policy, the EU proposed radical new data protection rules of its own and both illustrated the growing clash between data collection and privacy in the cloud.

This week we look at how to hire a security genius, the advantages of using HTML5 and how Agile adds more discipline to the development process.