7 things you need to know in the news this week (according to Linkedin)

1. What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers
2. Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die
3. The 25 Worst Passwords of 2011 Revealed
4. Watch Steve Jobs brainstorm with the NeXT team in this fascinating video
5. Steve Ballmer's Nightmare: How Microsoft's Business Actually Could Collapse
6. Firms 'ill prepared for IT failure'
7. With Its $100M Acquisition Of VideoSurf, Microsoft’s Video Search Now Has Big Potential