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Shortage of Windows 7 migration experts expected

A Gartner report indicates that large and medium-sized businesses will migrate roughly 250 million PCs to Windows 7 over the next few years. The research firm said this demand exceeds the supply of qualified IT staffers

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BREAKING NEWS: New CEO at HP Canada

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Microsoft opens up virtual desktop options

Licensing remains expensive and complicated for enterprises, but Microsoft is allowing new usage scenarios

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IBM vets ID management, access control on own systems

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