Why Windows Vista Works for Your Business

In today's world of work, Windows Vista gives your business an advantage by empowering your most valuable asset—people. Windows Vista makes it easy for people to communicate, collaborate and to work with greater efficiency and effectiveness, regardless of their location. And Windows Vista enhances your organization's ability to find, use, and secure data, meet complex regulatory requirements, and manage information technology costs. It's the heart of any competitive organization's IT desktop investment.

Here are some critical areas in which Windows Vista serves the needs of your business and the people responsible for its success.

Improve security and compliance

Protecting your business information and complying with rules for business transparency can greatly increase the demands on your IT infrastructure. With Windows Vista, sophisticated data protection and auditing capabilities help simplify IT management and lower costs for regulatory compliance. And Windows Vista helps organizations create a more controlled information environment so that managing security risks becomes a routine part of business.

Optimize your desktop infrastructure

Every day more and more demands are made on your IT systems, but that doesn't have to increase your IT expense. Windows Vista is designed to be less expensive to deploy, maintain, and manage—supporting employee productivity and providing and a better return on your IT investment.

Find and use information

The way people find and use information can be critical to the success of your business. Windows Vista dramatically improves how people access and leverage the knowledge and resources within your organization. The operating system helps people find and use information quickly, easily, and more securely and in more places—including their PCs, e-mail, corporate servers, and the Internet.

Enable your mobile workforce

Today, more businesses rely on a mobile workforce to serve their customers and reduce enterprise costs associated with a large onsite staff. Windows Vista gives mobile workers more secure and versatile ways to access company IT resources so they can easily collaborate with colleagues, on and off the company network, and across geographic boundaries.

View Case Studies to learn how other companies have minimized business costs and maximized the value of their Windows investment.

A version that's right for your business

To effectively serve organizations of all sizes, Windows Vista is available in two versions: Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Business.

Windows Vista Business can help you reduce IT costs while increasing the impact your people have on producing business results..

Windows Vista Enterprise includes all the features available in Windows Vista Business, with additional capabilities designed to help reduce the cost and complexity of deploying and managing corporate PCs. It provides higher levels of data protection, easier application management, and improved standardization for global operations.

Windows Vista Enterprise also offers stronger data protection for a growing, mobile workforce, including more protection of sensitive data in the event a mobile PC is lost or stolen.

Learn more about Windows Vista Enterprise and how to implement it in your business through Software Assurance, which provides access to exclusive tools and services designed to maximize your software investment.

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