Top 10 IT headlines for May 8 — IT should prep for more telecommuters, Microsoft still shopping, AMD 12-core

by Jason Hiner in Microsoft

on May 7, 2008, 8:47 PM PDT

Top 10 IT headlines for May 8 — IT should prep for more telecommuters, Microsoft still shopping, AMD 12-core

Top 10 IT news headlines for Thursday, May 8, 2008: IT should prepare for $200/barrel oil and supporting more remote workers, Microsoft reportedly approaches Facebook, AMD releases plans for 12-core server chips, Dell offers new virtualization options, and much more.

Top 10 IT headlines

IT must prepare for $200-a-barrel oil and a rise in remote workers (TechRepublic)
Microsoft still shopping; Approached Facebook (ZDNet)
Microsoft going it alone? Not exactly (ZDNet)
AMD Plans 12-Core Server Chip In 2010 (TechWeb)
Dell expands virtualization offerings (eWEEK)
Top Instant Messaging applications in the enterprise (TechRepublic)
How one vendor learned to stop worrying (about open source) and love Microsoft (Computerworld)
Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition — from Sun (ZDNet)
Podcast: How 4G will affect the rest of us (CNET)
I updated Windows XP with SP3 and nothing bad happened (TechRepublic)

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