Top 10 most read: Council dumps XP for Chromebooks, Apple overtakes Samsung in mobile sales, HP cloud wireless kit

V3 readers only had eyes for a 12-year-old piece of technology last week, as all the focus was on the fast-approaching deadline for Windows XP support.

Google scored a major win on the back of Microsoft's support cut-off, as the London borough of Barking and Dagenham revealed on Wednesday that it has embarked on a major migration project to Chromebooks and Chromeboxes ahead of the 8 April deadline.

The UK government has decided the best policy is to delay migration for another year, and has signed a one-year support extension deal to the tune of £5.5m. This allows all public sector bodies to get free XP security patches until April 2015.

For those firms still on XP and not sure which course to take, we've posted our top 10 alternatives to Windows XP, with all the pros and cons of moving to different platforms or staying put.

Apple had some positive news last week, as the latest smartphone statistics showed that it has overtaken arch rival Samsung, with more people across the UK now using iPhones than Galaxy handsets.

Elsewhere, HP has detailed a raft of upcoming networking products, including cloud-managed wireless kit for small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), plus more software-defined networking (SDN) products for its unified wired-and-wireless portfolio and its Virtual Application Networks controller.

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Top 10 Windows XP alternatives
As the 8 April deadline arrives, we count down the best options for firms still using XP

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Government shells out £5.5m for Windows XP one-year support deal
Public sector can sign up for security patches until 14 April 2015