A day after unveiling his strategy for HP, chief executive Leo Apotheker talked with IDG's John Gallant and InfoWorld's Eric Knorr about how HP will succeed in the cloud, his plans for the company to become an analytics powerhouse, and his perplexity over this odd American tradition known as March Madness. OK, maybe not the last one.

Windows might be a popular platform for running certain kinds of Web applications. But too many developers have been burnt by trying to deploy PHP applications on a Windows server. Microsoft is aiming to change that. In fact, while you weren't looking, they already made some improvements.