Windows 7: Ready for Business

Advantages of Windows 7

Windows 7: A Closer Look

Windows® 7 offers your enterprise a number of new and significant features that can help streamline your data center while improving the overall end-user experience.

Improve User Productivity

  • Faster and Easier – Windows 7 introduces two exciting features for end users and IT departments: DirectAccess and BranchCache. DirectAccess allows end users the ability to access their corporate network without the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) software. It’s that simple. If you have access to the Internet, you have access to your company SharePoint files and e-mail messages.
  • Access to Information Virtually Anywhere – For those companies that maintain multiple geographic locations, BranchCache will help end users access remote data faster and easier than ever. BranchCache is a feature that allows data accessed remotely to be cached locally so the local end users see faster file access performance.
  • Remove Barriers to Information – Federated Search allows you to search and view content from local, network and Internet repositories all within a single view.

Increase Security

  • Built on a Windows Vista Foundation – Windows 7 builds on the Vista foundation and offers additional security capabilities over what Vista has to offer.
  • Protect Data and PCs – With BitLocker™ To Go, IT departments now have the ability to automatically encrypt any USB drive attached to a Windows 7 machine. And you can still use these encrypted drives on XP/Vista machines.
  • Protect Users and Infrastructure – Internet Explorer® 8 introduces built-in anti-phishing and anti-malware that protects against malicious and social engineering attacks coming from unknown external sites.

Streamline PC Management

  • Easy Migration - Migration from Vista to Windows 7 using the Windows Image Management interface can make the transition to Windows 7 a snap.
  • Extending the Life of Your PC – Windows 7 has shown it can run on lower resources than Windows Vista, which means your desktop hardware investment life cycle can be extended.
  • Keeping PCs Running – PC stability is the number one goal of any IT administrator. A big obstacle to that objective has traditionally been end-users downloading non-business approved software to their desktop, introducing application conflicts and possible malware. With Windows 7 AppLocker, IT departments now have the ability to specify what applications (and versions) are allowed to be installed.
  • Faster Problem Resolution –The Problem Steps Recorder (PSR) tool allows a user to easily document steps being used to reproduce an issue. The tool can be used to monitor user interaction through the keyboard and mouse, capture screenshots of the desktop (including multi-monitor) and capture additional details about the User Interface (UI) elements and Operating System.