on the foundation of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, the newest version of the Windows operating system helps improve performance by providing greater security, reliability, and manageability for local and remote computers. Education institutions will find a wide range of innovations and enhancements that can help them improve productivity.
Watch the video below to learn why the New South Wales School District decided to use and deploy Windows 7.
Get more done. Faster startups, shutdowns, and resumes from standby in Windows 7 help you spend less time waiting and more time being productive. With enhanced power-saving features, you can enjoy longer battery life on your mobile appliances. In addition, you can share documents, printers, and more across multiple computers running Windows 7—regardless of whether your organization has a server.
Work your way. Windows 7 provides improved taskbar thumbnails that simplify your ability to open applications and to see what’s already open. You can even get a full-screen preview before switching to a specific window. With the new Jump Lists feature, you can easily keep track of files you’ve recently used, saving you from hunting for them. Windows 7 also makes it much simpler and more intuitive to open, close, resize, and arrange the windows on your desktop.
Explore new possibilities. Enhanced handwriting recognition in Windows 7 makes pen input faster and more accurate. You can also create personalized custom dictionaries for handwriting recognition, write math expressions, and use additional languages, including newly supported ones. If you have a touch-screen monitor, Windows Touch lets you work directly on your computer screen, using your fingers to easily navigate, scroll, resize windows, and more.
Windows 7 is even more reliable, responsive, and intuitive than previous versions of the Windows operating system, making the everyday things you do easier and more fun to complete. Your network administrators and IT staff, too, will appreciate improvements in the ways Windows 7 can help them better manage and secure your personal computer client infrastructure.
Your academic institution can benefit from the improvements and enhancements Windows 7 offers in key areas, including:
Productivity. With Windows 7, you can easily and securely access critical information stored on your personal computer, from virtually anywhere, in an e-mail message or an attachment, or centrally on a server. When outside the network, you can work offline and have that work automatically synchronized once you reconnect to the server. In addition, rich search tools, including server content search, help you almost instantly find the information or application you need from your computer or network.
Deployment. Windows 7 retains the basic infrastructure and design of Windows Vista, minimizing disruptions during deployment and helping you utilize existing hardware investments. Offering support for offline and multiphase user state migrations, Windows 7 can also help you reduce downtime by performing migrations during off hours. In addition, most Windows XP applications are compatible with Windows 7. For those that are not, you can use Windows XP Mode to run many older productivity applications directly from your desktop.
Management. Windows 7 comes with powerful diagnostics and troubleshooting tools, which make it easier and less expensive to resolve many IT issues. With Windows PowerShell 2.0, you can automate repetitive administration tasks, helping to enable IT staff to do more in less time. Group Policy Preferences extend the reach of what Group Policy can manage and how settings are applied to specific users or computers.
Security and compliance. Windows 7 provides customizable User Access Controls, helping to reduce the likelihood of a PC being infected by malicious software. With AppLocker, you can more efficiently specify which applications can run on a user’s personal computer. Windows 7 also offers BitLocker To Go, an extension of Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption that helps encrypt removable drives, such as USB flash drives.
