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This week's IT roundup looks at the race for mobile platform dominance, plus the most dangerous software flaws of 2012.

Android and iOS mobile operating systems continue to gain ground, seemingly at the expense of the Microsoft and Blackberry platforms. It will be interesting to see how this changes throughout 2013.

Android and iOS Gain Mobile OS Market Share Yet Again

The 2013 Technology of the Year Award Winners

See the best hardware, software and services of the year as voted on by InfoWorld. The trends this year revolve around making life easier with cloud computing, big data and beautiful design.

Microsoft Surface Pro Expected Soon

Gmail loses Google Sync: How Windows 8, RT, Office are affected
Google plans to drop support for its most powerful sync feature for customers of its free email services. Here is how it will affect Windows and Office.

This week's IT roundup includes Microsoft stopping all support of the still popular XP operating system, five steps to transform IT and the new threat of attacks on Android's devices.

Experts question Microsoft's decision to retire XP

Microsoft is drawing a line in the sand for Windows XP support in April 2014, at which time they will stop offering support for XP but experts suggest Microsoft will have to continue to support the OS.

In this week's Green IT Roundup GE is hoping to rebrand "green", technology is leading consumers to cut their energy consumption and the city of Minneapolis may begin requiring commercial buildings to publish their energy usage.

Smart energy technology gains a toehold in Minnesota

Utilities across the state of Minnesota are offering customers access to mobile apps and online portals to track their energy consumption, which is leading to cuts in energy usage.

In this week's IT Roundup we look at some of the new security features built into Windows 8, a new PCI compliance assessment guideline and the potential end of how Intel designs desktop processors.

Windows 8 Security: How Secure Is Windows 8?

Take a look at some of the new security features of Windows 8 including integrated antivirus and firewall. Let us know your thoughts on Windows 8 security in the comments section.

This week's IT Roundup includes a controversy on the usability of Windows 8, AWS running Windows 2012 Server, some innovative ideas for your business and guidelines for a successful Windows 8 migration.

Windows 8 UI 'strategic mistake,' argues design guru

In this week's IT Roundup we look at some big predictions for IT in the next 5 years, what you need to know about Windows 8 and all of its iterations and Microsoft's big push to move businesses away from XP.

Microsoft Urges Businesses to Move away from XP

With the release of Windows 8,  Microsoft is urging businesses to upgrade from XP and Vista.