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Get the latest analysis - see Cliff Saran's blog - is it the end of Windows and JP Kamath's blog post on Microsoft buys Yahoo?.

We have just announced our winner to our first Hardware Hoarders competition and the prize for imagination and creativity as well as an old piece of IT kit was Eric Jukes, who wins a Sony digital camera and £50 of Amazon vouchers, for pairing an ageing Toshiba T1100 with a brand new breed of mouse.

We had nearly 80 pictures sent in to our competition - which was a fantastic response. You can see all at our Flickr group or visit this selection.

What I love about these really hot stories is that a new name soon develops. In the case of Microsoft and Yahoo becoming part of the same family, the blogosphere has been going mad, and not surprisingly some genius concocted the unimaginative, but nevertheless logical "Microhoo".

Well whatever you may think about the story - it's not going away and the noise continues.

Well it says it all.

This image is attributed to Joe Manna, who also comments on the proposed takeover.

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Last week's top five stories on CW.com

If you missed them I'll list them here every week - and it gives you an idea of what everyone else in the senior IT Pro community was interested in as well.

Also if we missed some stories that you wanted us to cover then let me know by email or comment on this blog.

No, not those smalls. (Yes, it is Valentine's Day, but I don't think our firewall will allow it...)

We want to see your smallest - but still most impressive - IT equipment. Just send in your photos and upload your mobile phone videos and you could be in with a chance to win £50 of Amazon vouchers.

Think big, and we're sure you can do better than our tiny attempts so far...

Well this week's image of the week has to be the photos taken by Computer Weekly journalist JP Kamath while he was covering Heathrow's RFID trial on passenger's baggage.

More images from RFID project at Heathrow

And if you want more analysis on this story then see David Bicknell's RFID blog.

Cliff Saran's article and podcast interview with General Motors CIO Ralph Syzgenda is very interesting and also very useful for aspiring CIOs - take a look at his top tips below or read the interview in full on ComputerWeekly.

Or if you prefer you can download or listen to the podcast interview of Ralph Syzgenda, glodal CIO of General Motors in full.

Here's the top five stories on CW.com last week. If we missed any other stories that you wanted us to cover then let me know by email or comment on this blog.

Last week's top five were as follows:

1. Ryanair to suspend bookings service for four days following OFT ruling on taxes

2. BAA signs outsourcing contract with LogicaCMG

3. Sony Ericsson launch extends reach of Windows Mobile

4. Web 2.0 What does it constitute?

5. Yahoo rejects Microsoft takeover bid

Perhaps the open source community will now see the halo atop of Bill Gates's head following the news that Microsoft is going to make available its internal application programming interfaces for MS Office and Windows protocols.

My colleague Cliff Saran sums up the significance of this news on his FUD blog.

Also see this on CW.com - Microsoft says it will launch an open source interoperability initiative

Image credit: Matt Elder

Last week's most popular stories on CW.com - if you missed them a chance to catch them again.

1. Secret Downing Street papers reveal Tony Blair rushed NHS IT

2. Microsoft pulls faulty Windows Vista update

3. Average UK broadband speed under 3mbps, report shows

4. National Consumer Council refers 17 software companies for unfair terms and conditions

5. Staffing and skills crisis the top concern for CEOs and CIOs

When we relaunched ComputerWeekly.com we promised we would look to continually improve the site for our readers, putting you, the user, first. No more standing still: we've gone agile, enabling us to keep rolling out a series of improvements over the course of each year so that the site constantly evolves, improving your experience.

Some of these improvements will be behind the scenes stuff that may have no visual impact, but some - like today's - will mean that if you're used the site you'll really notice the changes.

So today you'll see changes to the homepage and also to the article page - both of which I hope will improve your experience of ComputerWeekly.com.

Seems we spoke - just a little - too soon!

We had a couple of technical hitches with the site changes we mentioned yesterday, which were causing performance problems for some visitors to ComputerWeekly.com, so we've rolled the changes back for now while we investigate and put things right.

The evolved site will be with us soon - and at least some of you have now had a sneak preview!