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Enterprise computing is headed for “massive changes,” according to SAP co-founder and former CEO Hasso Plattner. He vows that the boardroom shakeup at SAP over the weekend, which he helped engineer, will change the company’s culture and help drive technical innovation.

Microsoft’s Windows 7 is sucking the life out of laptops and netbooks at a faster rate than its predecessors, according to computer users who posted their complaints on a support forum maintained by the software maker.

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The Ruby on Rails project has delivered a beta release of Ruby on Rails 3, the latest major version of the popular Web development framework that features Merb integration.

In a blog post announcing the new beta release, Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson, wrote: "You thought we were never going to get to this day, didn’t you? Ye of little faith. Because here is the first real, public release of Rails 3.0 in the form of a beta package that we’ve toiled long and hard over."