With many keeping one eye on Hurricane Wilma churning off the coast, 6,000 IT executives last week heard Gartner analysts offer their vision on everything from security trends to wireless network directions. The Gartner Symposium and IT Expo 2005 also brought out 190 vendors and included keynote presentations from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, HP CEO Mark Hurd and Dell CEO Michael Dell.

Ballmer said he believes his company has ironed out all of the security problems in its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system so that users can consider adopting it the first day it is released - for the most part.

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