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Shortage of Windows 7 migration experts expected [GENERAL IT NEWS]

As originally published from INFOWORLD on September 13, 2010 Organizations will migrate about 250 million PCs to Windows 7 over the next few years, and Gartner predicts there won't be enough qualified IT staffers to handle the task. It's not a Y2K-style crisis, but there's only a four-year window until Microsoft ends support for Windows XP. The need to migrate from XP to Windows 7 "will create an extra budgetary and resource burden on companies from 2011 to 2012," according to recent report by Gartner. The research firm estimates that large and midsize organizations worldwide will migrate about 250 million PCs to Windows 7 over the next few years. [ Get all the details you need on deploying and using Windows 7 in the InfoWorld editors' 21-page Windows 7 Deep Dive PDF special report . | Stay abreast of key Microsoft technologies in our Technology: Microsoft newsletter . ] Gartner predicted that demand for IT staffers qualified to handle Windows 7 mig