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Windows Vista Enterprise Videos and Demos

Watch these demonstrations to learn more about key features included in Windows Vista Enterprise and the optional Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, as well as Volume Licensing and Software Assurance.

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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 reduce 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. Watch the demo.

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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 a better return on your IT investment. Watch the demo.

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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. Watch the demo.

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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 resources so they can easily collaborate with colleagues, on and off the company network, and across geographic boundaries. Watch the demo.


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Watch this video to see how Windows Vista Enterprise builds on the features in Windows Vista Business. See how Windows Vista Enterprise provides higher levels of data protection, offers tools to improve application compatibility, and enables organizations to standardize by using a single worldwide deployment. Watch the video (6 minutes).

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Learn more about Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption, a new data-protection feature available in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate that addresses a growing concern: the theft or unwanted disclosure of data made available through physical loss of computer devices. Watch the video (35 minutes).

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See how the larger number of supported languages, ability to dynamically add or delete languages, and the ability to reduce the number of images in Windows Vista Enterprise will help you reduce complexity while providing more capability. Watch the video (36 minutes).

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Find out how the subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) provides an infrastructure to run UNIX-based applications and scripts on Windows Vista. See why the effort needed to port a custom UNIX application to Windows is now similar to porting the application from one UNIX flavor to another. Watch the video (36 minutes).

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Learn more about Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs (FLP), a new Software Assurance benefit that allows organizations with older hardware to repurpose their PCs into locked-down thin clients. Watch the video (4 minutes)

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Deploy software applications that are never installed to minimize regression testing, yet follow users anywhere, on demand. Microsoft Application Virtualization turns Windows applications into centrally managed virtual services that are delivered to any desktop or laptop client worldwide. It can also be integrated and managed within Microsoft SMS. Register to watch the free video.

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Find out how desktop optimization with Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack can streamline your business, reduce cost, and increase security. Watch the demo.

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See how Microsoft Application Virtualization can deliver applications that are never installed, yet securely follow users anywhere, on demand. Watch the demo.

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Watch how BDD 2007 can help your company reduce IT investment deployment time, effort, and cost by increasing the level of automation. Watch the demo.

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Try out the Windows Vista experience to see what makes this operating system different. Test drive today.

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To help improve your adoption experience for Windows Vista, we have developed the Springboard series, which offers you the right tools and resources at the right technical depth and at the right time in your adoption process. Please visit our online destination where you can also read monthly straight-talk articles and community best practices as well as get and give advice within our managed forums. Learn more about the Springboard series.


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Learn how MDOP helps reduce the total cost of ownership of the entire Windows desktop life cycle by accelerating operating system and application management as well as enhancing IT responsiveness and user uptime. Watch the video (10 minutes).

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See how Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management gives you greater control over Group Policy Objects through change management, versioning, and rollbacks. In this video demonstration, see how you can more easily control the desktop and ensure less downtime from conflicting or improperly configured GPOs. Watch the video (24 minutes).

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Watch this introduction to Asset Inventory Service, part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. This Internet-hosted service delivers a full software inventory of your desktops (and servers) in an accurate and agile manner. Watch the video (13 minutes).

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Find out how the Microsoft Diagnostics Recovery Toolset repairs any unbootable or lock-out desktop systems that have crashed. See how you can recover failed systems with minimal manual effort—and with much less time than is required when restoring PCs from backup or reinstalling operating systems. Watch the video (23 minutes).

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Learn how you can use Application Virtualization to turn Windows applications into centrally managed, virtual services that are never installed and can be instantly streamed to any desktop or laptop. Watch the video (1 hour, 3 minutes).

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See how System Center Desktop Error Monitoring makes desktops more stable and reduces the cost of Windows desktop ownership by enabling your IT team to manage application and operating system failures using a scalable, low-cost deployment solution for granular error filtering and alerting. Watch the video (12 minutes).

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Deploy software applications that are never installed to minimize regression testing, yet follow users anywhere, on demand. Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization) turns Windows applications into centrally managed virtual services that are delivered to any desktop or laptop client worldwide. It can also be integrated and managed within Microsoft SMS. Register to watch the free webcast.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure from Microsoft demo

Find out how Microsoft technologies and licensing can bring all the power and benefits of virtualization to your infrastructure.

Mobile Knowledge Workers scenario

While users expect flexibility and the ability to take their data with them wherever they go, the IT department needs to make sure that data is protected and user productivity is not significantly affected in the case of a lost or stolen laptop.

Office Knowledge Workers scenario

With the Office Knowledge Worker scenario, users are able to access their data on whichever managed PC they log into and benefit from the rich Windows Vista experience for applications, while the IT department is able to maintain their compliance and protection of sensitive data and can easily move users from one PC to another across their organization.

Task Worker scenario

Call center employees, warehouse workers, and retail employees are examples of users who tend to use one or few applications, such as bank branch teller software, terminal applications, or even CRM or line of business applications.

Remote Desktop Access from Anywhere scenario

Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol makes it possible for a user to access their work environment from virtually any location, over the Internet, while the IT department can protect corporate data and maintain control of the environment.

Learn which Volume Licensing program is right for you

Use this Flash tool to find the best Volume Licensing plan for your needs.

Learn more about Software Assurance

Use this Flash tool to learn more about the Software Assurance benefits.

Springboard series

To help improve your adoption experience for Windows Vista, we have developed the Springboard series, which offers you the right tools and resources at the right technical depth and at the right time in your adoption process. Please visit our online destination where you can also read monthly straight-talk articles and community best practices as well as get and give advice within our managed forums.



Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.

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