Solve it with Windows 7

Built with the specific needs of small and midsize businesses in mind, Microsoft Windows 7 delivers just what these environments demand – a solutions that they can rely on and one that helps them get more done, reduce costs and safeguard their work.

Discover how you can use the new functionality in Windows 7 to address some of your customer’s challenges.

1. Ensuring uninterrupted line-of-business applications

   Windows 7 has been pre-tested to ensure compatibility with an extensive array of LOB applications; a virtualized Windows XP Mode further ensures compatibility with many productivity applications currently running on Windows XP:

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   • Windows XP Mode: Provides the ability to run “legacy” LOB applications in a virtual Windows XP environment— you can extend your scope of services by enabling and setting up Windows XP Mode
   • Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit: Assesses application compatibility with Windows 7

    

2. Keeping remote and mobile workers connected and productive

   Windows 7 allows you to more effectively and efficiently support your customers’ mobile and remote workers by automating and streamlining common connectivity tasks.

   When deployed together Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 provide combined value and enables the following benefits:

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   • DirectAccess: Enables mobile PCs to connect to the core network and stay connected - providing server and mobile infrastructure sales opportunities
   • Device Stage: Creates a personalized experience between a consumer’s mobile device and their computer; facilitate finding and using devices on different networks
   • BranchCache™: Improves the experience of users in branch and home offices by caching content from the core network for quicker local access

    

3. Protecting data and providing backup

   The combination of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 also allows you to more effectively and robustly protect your customers’ data from theft or accidental loss through new encryption technology, advanced backup features, and the ability to restore previous versions of files:

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   • Advanced Backup: Helps ensure more effective, consistent, and easy to manage backup
   • BitLocker™, BitLocker to Go™, and Encrypted File System: Helps stop data theft through encrypting files, entire volumes, and portable storage devices
   • Restore Previous Versions: Takes snapshots of files that users can restore in case they accidentally delete a file or it becomes corrupt
   • Encrypting File System: provides user-level file and folder encryption, ensuring strong data protection and control.

    

4. Improving productivity through a more effective search

   Current desktop and Enterprise search solutions are good, but not integrated, forcing users to take different steps to find data on PC and data on servers. With Microsoft 7 finding things is efficient and easy; type a few letter in the search box, and files, applications, or even menus appear in seconds.

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   • Microsoft Enterprise Federated Search: delivers a consistent experience when searching for data from multiple locations, including SharePoint sites.
   • Users and IT can pre-populate Favourites in Windows Explorer to remote search sites that support OpenSearch protocol
   • IT can point users to select search sites with Enterprise Search Scopes

    

5. Better Support for virtualization

   Windows 7 delivers the latest enhancements to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology; providing a richer user experience and easier IT management.

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   Delivering desktop functionality using server-hosted virtual machines, VDI gives Windows 7 users an experience that is closer to a local PC experience. It does this by enabling user access to, their desktops remotely, centralised data, applications and operating systems.