Windows 7 migration costs laid bare

Martin Courtney
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Martin Courtney investigates if spending £1,360 per PC migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 is worth the effort - and how do you keep IT labour costs down?

Steve Kleynhans at Gartner anticipates that third-party software vendors will start to drop support for XP in 2011/12 Microsoft’s issue of its last security patch for PCs running Windows XP servi...

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