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Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor; This week's 25 most-read stories

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Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor

John Fontana By John Fontana
Corporate migration to Windows 7 may be less about evaluating the new Microsoft operating system and more about how to properly gauge the correct time to get XP off client desktops. Read full story

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This week's 25 most-read stories

1. Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond
2. Slideshow: Products shown at Interop
3. Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
4. 20 most useful career sites for IT professionals
5. Evolution of Ethernet
6. Cisco's huge router reaches five-year milestone
7. Desktops of the future here today
8. Verizon: incompetent training or corporate indifference?
9. Cisco enhances routers, switches for collaboration
10. Are you ready for Mi-Fi?

11. YouTube hit by porn storm
12. Malware knocks out U.S. Marshals Service network
13. Stimulus bill to provide 'windfall' for wireless providers, ABI projects
14. WiMAX changes lives in rural Thailand
15. Huawei moves up in networking's big leagues
16. Death of the mouse
17. Wanted for hire: generalists, not IT specialists
18. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition
19. Microsoft Removes Windows 7's "Crippleware" 3 App Limit
20. Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone: How they stack up

21. Want to friend the feds?
22. VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads, Burton Group says
23. Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit 'pause button'
24. MIT: Cloud computing to reshape IT
25. Fibre Channel over Ethernet a hot topic, so hurry up and wait


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05/28/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Cisco's huge router reaches five-year milestone
  2. Cisco enhances routers, switches for collaboration
  3. VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads
  4. EMC inks deal to acquire Configuresoft
  5. YouTube hit by porn storm
  6. Catalyst 6500 has another decade or more left, Cisco hints
  7. Latest Kaspersky mobile software wipes data via SMS
  8. Nortel looking to sell stake in joint venture
  9. Are you ready for Mi-Fi?
  10. Bluetooth headset Battle Royale


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