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Microsoft expanded on its plans for virtualized storage in Windows 8, offering more details on the new Storage Spaces feature, currently available in the developer preview.

Softpedia: KDE Software Compilation 4.8 Release Candidate brings hundreds of bug fixes and general improvements.

The final release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment, in January 2012, will contain lots of interesting features.

VirtualBox 4.1.4 for Linux Supports X.Org Server 1.11 Softpedia: "Oracle announced a new maintenance version to its VirtualBox virtualization software, VirtualBox 4.1.4, which brings many improvements and lots of bugfixes."

O'Reilly Radar: "We all have to celebrate the career of Steve Jobs and thank him for the tremendous improvements he has brought to computer interfaces and hardware. "

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Getting paid on Android has been a touchy subject for developers, who have had trouble turning their apps into big money makers.

But now Google has rolled out a new web store for Android Market and in-app purchases for apps that developers are hoping will kick-start revenues.

TuxArena: "Opera 11 was released just a few hours earlier today, and it comes with several notable features, a new interface, and many other improvements."

Google has upgraded its Priority Inbox, a recently launched Gmail feature that automatically places important mail on top of your inbox, with a couple of improvements based on user feedback.The Priority Inbox now reacts much faster to users manual corrections.

Furthermore, if you hover the mouse cursor over the importance marker of individual emails, youll see a short explanation of why that message is considered important.As far as what kind of impact the Priority Inbox has had on Gmail users, Google claims that typical Priority Inbox users spend 43% more time reading important

Silverlight 5 offers improvements targeted at premium media experiences and enterprise apps, according to Microsoft. The public beta is slated for the first half of 2011.

LWN.net: "The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of this new scheduler, describe its features and how it can be practically used, provide a few details about the implemented algorithms, and gathering feedback by the community about possible improvements."