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As an IT pro, you typically look at a three- to five-year cycle when deciding what equipment and technologies will be essential to helping your company continue to grow. Making the right choices can be challenging, especially when you consider the technology on the horizon. The next Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable will look at the relationship between cloud technologies and the desktop.

Don’t forget to join us this Thursday at 9 am PST for our live, Virtual Roundtable, “Is XP Good Enough? Really?”

This event will address questions and concerns around migration costs, application compatibility, and organization readiness. The panel will also cover the role of virtualization in the desktop environment as well as the migration tools available to manage application compatibility and better automate deployment.

Join us for a lively roundtable discussion on how the technology landscape has changed since Windows XP was first released, and learn how to address today's challenges around security and manageability. Host Stephen Rose, IT Pro Community Manager with the Windows Client team, will be joined by a panel of IT professionals and Microsoft subject matter experts to dive into the differences between Windows® 7 and Windows XP, Windows® Internet Explorer® 6 and. Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9, and the various technologies in the client PC management stack.

Deploying Windows 7, but still running Web applications based on Internet Explorer 6? Join us live at 9:00 AM Pacific Time on Thursday, September 30, 2010 for a virtual, interactive roundtable discussion on migration strategies, standards, and support for organizations moving from Internet Explorer 6 to Internet Explorer 8.

On April 29th, Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich, will be leading a discussion around the process of planning, testing, assessing and rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise organization.