Bill Gates to return as Microsoft's white knight?

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Editor's note See why Mary Jo Foley doubts the new rumor about Bill Gates returning to run Microsoft. Also see our teardown of the Motorola Droid Razr and the latest news on Verizon's 4G outage, Twitter's redesign, and questioning the cloud's cost savings. -Jason Bill Gates to return as Microsoft's white knight? Could and should Bill Gates return to day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft? Fortune is reporting there's a rumor to that effect. Read more Resource of the day What's New in Apache Subversion, Version 1.7 Subversion is a versioning and revision control tool, and guess what? They just released a new version. Check out this webcast to learn more about new features. More from TechRepublic   Windows 8: Microsoft can do it fast, cheap, or right Deb Shinder doesn't think Microsoft can afford to cut corners making Windows 8 for the sake of speed and/or cost and risk not getting it right. Read more Motorola Droid Razr Teardown: Better hardware should anger Bionic buyers The Droid Razr is thinner, lighter, and has better hardware than the Droid Bionic, which Motorola release just two months prior. Read more Bump performance in Windows 7 by trimming startup programs Greg Shultz shows you several methods that you can use to investigate startup programs and how you can eliminate some of them to improve performance. Read more A Windows Store move that Google should adopt right away The big opportunity for Android in the corporate market involves giving companies the same open access that's been promised to Windows tablet users. Read more Influential interactive website designs: 10 of the best Todd Fluhr shares his list of the best interactive website designs. Some of these are huge, some went viral, but all have been influential on the Internet. Read more News from ZDNet   Verizon Wireless faults technical issue for 4G outage Verizon Wireless speaks out as to why its 4G LTE network suffered a major outage across the country this week. Read more Twitter's new look: Is it about the new users or the ads? Twitter wants you to stick around a bit more. It remains to be seen if Twitter gets stickier, but if it does a business model---and potential IPO---is likely to emerge fairly quickly. Read more Facebook confirms restructuring around privacy, communication Facebook has confirmed it has restructured the company to focus on privacy and communication. The social networking giant is now made up of five groups that report to Mark Zuckerberg. Read more The cloud's money-saving potential questioned [survey] Approximately 45 percent of U.S. small businesses using the cloud reported that the cost reductions were non-existent but there were other operational benefits. Read more Microsoft could charge for Skype video archiving and authentication Microsoft may charge business users for Skype video archiving and authentication, but keep the base consumer video service free, according to one high-ranking company executive. Read more Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' running on an Amazon Kindle Fire It's getting there - The Kindle Fire would make a really good $200 Android ICS tablet. Read more Galaxy Nexus camera: better than you may have heard (gallery) The Galaxy Nexus has been slammed because of the camera, but as you can see in my image gallery it actually takes very good photos in the right lighting condition. Read more Google building out Circles with Gmail contacts Gmail has caught the Circles bug and sees further integration with Google Plus. Read more Google 'does not work with', support Carrier IQ Google's chairman reaffirmed today that the search and mobile giant does not use Carrier IQ mobile tracking software in Android. Read more An ariel view of the salty new Facebook HQ - 1 Hacker Way Street cred for a mainstream Silicon Valley company comes cheap... Read more Facebook to give its employees Facebucks Facebook is planning to give its employees Facebucks: specialized credit cards good for use at local businesses. It's all part of the social networking giant's move to Menlo Park. Read more Featured multimedia   Cracking Open the Motorola Droid Razr Bill Detwiler cracks open the Motorola Droid Razr. Inside the Android smartphone, he found hardware from Texas Instruments, Hynix, and Atmel. View on site 10 of the best interactive web designs Todd Fluhr shares his candidates for ten of the best interactive website experiences. Wildly popular, viral, or quirky, all of these have been influential on other designs. View on site Featured Webcast Live Webcast: The Power Behind Data Mining & Analytics This webcast will explain to you the process of data mining and data analytics. 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