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

Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Cisco Forrester Research: Lowering WAN costs Improve your WAN optimization RoI and dramatically lower costs with Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platform. Find out how in this Live Webcast, "The Total Economic Impact of Cisco WAAS Multi-Company Analysis." This live event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m. PT. Register Now Spotlight Story Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor 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 Related News: News podcast: Network World 360 EMC Wednesday announced plans to acquire Configuresoft, a maker of server configuration, change and compliance management software, for an undisclosed sum. Also, for the third time in the past year, AT&T has announced that it is upgrading the speed of its 3G network, this time promising peak speeds of 7.2Mbps. (6:11) Yahoo's Bartz Open To Microsoft Ballmer's Overtures Lots of rumors this morning about today's morning meeting between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. (See this TechCrunch article .) Are negotiations back on? It appears at least the door is open thanks to a comment by Bartz yesterday at D7, implying a deal could be done if Microsoft parted with enough cash. Microsoft picks Bing as name for new search engine Microsoft has picked Bing as the branding for its new search engine, putting to rest months of speculation of what the next iteration of Live Search would be called. Study: Operators should use DNSSEC to improve security Various challenges are making many operators hesitate to adopt DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) to prevent hackers from tampering with DNS information and redirecting Web traffic, according to a study from European Union's cybersecurity agency. 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 Evolution of Ethernet From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond. Apple iPhoneys: The 4G edition iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone. Sponsored by Cisco Forrester Research: Lowering WAN costs Improve your WAN optimization RoI and dramatically lower costs with Cisco's Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platform. 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