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A key component of the Optimized Desktop, Windows Vista Enterprise is the premium business operating system for organizations with multiple PC environments such as mobile workers, office workers, and contract workers. Learn more.

• Get data protection with Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption

• Build a single global image with Multilingual User Interface

• Ease interoperability with the Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications

• Learn more about Windows Vista Service Pack 1

• See the benefits of Windows Vista Enterprise

• See demos and videos

• Find case studies

• Find data sheets and white papers

Management tools such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) enhance the manageability of Windows, streamline your business, and drives down desktop total cost of ownership (TCO). Learn more.

• Get best practice management with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

• Learn about Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management, and more

• Ease deployment with Microsoft Deployment and Business Desktop Deployment 2007

• Learn about the management tools benefits

• See demos and videos

• Find case studies

• Find data sheets and white papers

For customers exploring various deployment models, the Optimized Desktop for Windows provides unique licensing and virtualization technologies. Learn more.

• Find out about hosted and virtualized desktop licensing with Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop

• Get remote boot licensing with Diskless PC rights

• License four virtual machines (VMs) per PC

• See demos and videos

• Find case studies

• Find data sheets and white papers

Depending on the usage scenario and business needs, the right level of balance between user flexibility and centralized control would be different across various user groups within each organization. Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios give organizations the ability to choose the client computing scenarios that best meet the unique needs of their businesses. Learn more.