Google and salesforce.com team up on business apps. The partnership to integrate applications could boost cloud computing, but unfulfilled requirements remain. Fujitsu shows a prototype laptop it claims is more environmentally-friendly because it uses bio-plastics parts and comes in a cedar casing. Sharp details the first ultramobile PC built with Intel’s Atom chipset, a device that will be larger and more expensive than originally expected of the class. Sun Microsystems claims a big leap with MySQL 5.1, an upgrade that brings several new features to make the open source database more suitable for critical applications at large enterprises. And Robert X. Cringely writes that Windows is falling — run for your lives. “Vista is a bloated mess. Corporate America doesn’t want it.” Even worse, Microsoft admits that Vista’s infamous User Account Controls were put there to deliberately annoy users. “The future belongs to nimble, lightweight operating systems and applications.” Software Development