Shortage of Windows 7 migration experts expected

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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…