Microsoft, it appears, is preparing for the day when Windows clients become obsolete with project Midori, which consists of a componentized, non-Windows OS that will take advantage of technologies that have emerged since the advent of Windows. Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo band together to form cloud computing labs for research and education in hopes of advancing development and adoption of large-scale, data-intensive hosted applications. Metasploit creator HD Moore has been hacked. DNS attack writer a victim of his own creation. His company had some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page run by a scammer, who pulled the caper via a cache poisoning attack — for which Metasploit released the first exploit just last week. With unrelated photos and logos showing up with other content, and some users unable to reach the index page, the new search engine founded by former Google employees, Cuil, met some troubles on its first day. And after two months of surveying, Robert X. shares the results pertaining to operating systems, the iPhone, the most innovative technology, and a porn-free Internet. These results, Cringe says, just might surprise you. Cringely checks out the polls. Software Development