Best of the web - 14 Nov 06

Our roundup of the rest of the web reveals how IT departments will spend their budgets, plus Microsoft joining the trend to managed services

Microsoft's managed services Outsourcing some of your computer facilities so that they’re managed by others has come to the fore recently with announcements by the likes of Amazon that they are going to rent some of the computing and storage power of their IT facilities. Microsoft has been toying with Web-based offerings for some time, but has now released more details of its own managed services plans, as reported in eWeek.
Microsoft Reveals More About Managed Services Plans

Top IT expenditures
Do your IT expenditure plans match the rest of the industry? ITBusinessEdge outlines the latest Forrester Research report which, not surprisingly, says virtualization will be one of the top IT expenditures.
Virtualization, Wireless LANs Among Top IT Spending Priorities

Upgrading headache
If you have a sizeable IT infrastructure, upgrading software is a significant issue. Is it as big a problem for you as the company mentioned by Microsoft blogger Raymond Chen, which was picked up by Slashdot, which has 9,000 different install scripts for their employees around the world?
The Importance of OS Backwards Compatibility