Orcas Beta 1 surfaces: Wondering what's going on with the next version of Microsoft's Visual Studio? InfoWorld Contributing Editor Martin Heller took a look at the Orcas Beta 1, and found a lot to like, include the new design surface for WPF apps. Check out his beta review and previous blog posts for more. (And don't miss Heller's quick peek at Microsoft's Popfly mashup tool, either.) App dev shapes up, slims do Orcas Beta 1 surfaces: Wondering what’s going on with the next version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio? InfoWorld Contributing Editor Martin Heller took a look at the Orcas Beta 1, and found a lot to like, include the new design surface for WPF apps. Check out his beta review and previous blog posts for more. (And don’t miss Heller’s quick peek at Microsoft’s Popfly mashup tool, either.)App dev shapes up, slims down?: According to a new McKinsey Quarterly study, application developers should adopt lean principles to save effort and time — which means thinking about app dev and maintenance as if it’s a factory. Dave Margulius takes a deeper look at the issue in this week’s Enterprise Insight column.Around the horn: Roger Grimes provides a quick malware history lesson and some tips on how to cope with ever-evolving nasties in this week’s Security Adviser column. Mario Apicella sees the forthcoming NFSv4.1 standard as being a very good thing for high-performance storage environments. And Sean McCown is fed up with snobby software vendors who don’t make it easy to learn about (and experiment with) their products. Technology Industry