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• Windows 8 Will Be an Upgrade Failure, IDC Predicts

  Windows 8 isn't even <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/245374/windows_8_beta_expected_in_early_2012.html">in beta yet</a>, but IDC is already predicting that very few PC owners will upgrade from Windows 7 to it. And that's just for a start -- the company also predicts that <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/245221/5_ways_microsoft_can_make_windows_8_tablets_a_hit.html">Windows 8 tablets</a> look to be a bust as well.Those predictions are contained in a new report, <a href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=231593">"Worldwide System Infrastructure Software 2012 Top 10 Predictions."</a>

• Windows XP to Windows 8: Don't go there

  A majority of enterprises have migrated to Windows 7 or are planning to do so. But for Windows XP holdouts ready to side-step Windows 7 for the upcoming Windows 8 OS, you are risking a gap in support, stresses research firm Gartner in a new "first take" analysis of Windows 8 migration in the enterprise.

• 10 best new features of Windows Server 8

  Microsoft claims 300 new and improved features in Windows Server 8, but after a few days in Redmond watching demos and stepping through lab sessions, we wonder whether the marketing guys accidentally left off a zero. It's hard to name a Windows Server feature that hasn't been tweaked, streamlined, wizardized, or completely revamped. Whatever grudge you may hold against Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 8 will almost certainly make amends.

• How Windows 8 will challenge enterprise IT

  Microsoft has presented the Windows 8 user interface and displayed various devices on which the next version of Windows will run.

• Microsoft and tablets: A failure to launch could hurt

  What are the implications if Microsoft fails or falls behind in the tablet PC race, which at its current pace, is a decent possibility?