Recently, there’s been quite a few ‘switchers’ from MovableType to WordPress noted here in the devblog, with an attendant rise in MT-related questions in the forums. For those of you switching (or considering the move) the following recent articles will be of great use:

Shelley Powers at Burningbird has written several articles detailing her move to WordPress; these are perhaps the most helpful:

• Moving to a New Weblogging Tool discusses her decision to change blogging tools and the factors that led her to choose WordPress.
• Making the Move from MovableType to WordPress details her experience with the process of migration.

Carthik has written a detailed guide for importing your MT entries into WordPress over here.

Last but not least, Gregory Auld at stuff/things has written the first in a series of articles comparing the templating systems of MovableType and WordPress.