Sustainable IT: Here’s yet another reason to keep Windows XP alive: Retiring XP means wasteful upgrades to Vista-capable PCs. “Refreshing your organizations’ fleet of desktops for reasons that have no positive impact on your business whatsoever is clearly wasteful (i.e. not green) on many levels: It’s a waste of your staff’s time and energy. It’s a waste of your organization’s money. And whether the systems end up refurbished, recycled, or tossed in a landfill, it’s a waste of resources,” Ted Samson explains. Sign the petition at SaveXP.com. From the InfoWorld Test Center: BEA Systems prides itself on being a front-runner when it comes to incorporating new standards and technologies into its middleware, and virtualization is no exception. BEA’s WebLogic Server 9.2 Virtual Edition, in the words of Andrew Binstock, “delivers interesting innovation, but awaits the arrival of VM management tools before it is ready for deployment in production environments.” Binstock got VE up and running, but it wasn’t easy. “I examined a shipping version of VE and found it to be somewhat uneven. Installation was hampered by insufficient documentation, and I had to make use of the tech support staff at my disposal for simple provisioning — exactly the opposite of the expected experience.” Read the full review. Show of the week: Apple CEO Steve Jobs kicks off the 2008 Macworld Conference and Expo today with a keynote. And while only he knows for sure what the company will unveil, Tom Yager offers up his best guess. “Although Leopard and Penryn have pushed the Mac to dizzying heights and should thus gain some stage time, the Macworld Expo keynote will still go heavy on iPhone and iTunes,” he writes in What to expect at Macworld. “And this time, the hype will be justified.” Related: Eight-core Xserve puts Apple back in the majors. Full disclosure: Macworld is owned by IDG World Expo, which has the same parent company as InfoWorld. Technology Industry