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Start now. Particularly if you skipped Vista, you need to start testing applications for compatibility with Windows 7. Microsoft says it will discontinue support for Windows XP in April 2014. Gartner predicts that many application vendors will drop support for XP versions by 2012. "Application support is the biggest problem to be concerned with," says Gartner analyst Michael Silver, even with some browser applications: Windows 7 forces an upgrade to Internet Explorer 8.
Data Center Lessons from the Online Gaming World
In June, Iceland-based CCP Games brought the hammer down on a group of resource hogs that were clogging its data center.
Windows 8 in 2012?
Microsoft Windows 8 may be coming as early as 2012, based on a recent rash of comments and hints dropped by Microsoft personnel in official capacity and informal context.
Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration
Microsoft is finally starting to explain the "plus" in its software-plus-services plan with the first slate of technologies to support integration of the cloud and existing IT resources.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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