Making its biggest foray yet into cloud computing, Microsoft on Tuesday details pricing and partnership agreements for Microsoft Online Services, all the while being mindful, for the time being anyway, of potential channel conflicts.IBM issues a second Jazz product to beta testers, Rational Requirements Composer, which Big Blue claims is intended to help business analysts and product managers stipulate application requirements to developers.Search giant Google open sources its data exchange language, saying that it sets the stage for a forthcoming raft of new releases. After a stealth update last year, Microsoft warns users of coming changes to Windows Update that will make scan times faster. And Randall Kennedy explains that a platform becomes doomed when developers stop caring about end-users. Witness the KDE4 debacle, in which the developers lost touch with users, existing and prospective folks alike, and ultimately mistook the journey for the destination. A FOSS manifesto: We don’t need no stinkin’ users. Technology Industry