Enable Your Mobile Workforce: Get the Details
Windows Vista provides your mobile workforce with tools, technologies, and a reliable platform to help them communicate, exchange information, and work effectively while on the go. Your employees can access information with confidence and collaborate with co-workers, customers, and partners with ease. Connecting to wireless networks and synchronizing information between mobile devices is more streamlined and simplified for an enhanced user experience. With the new mobility solutions and features in Windows Vista, your employees can be as productive outside of the office as they are when working at their desks.
New features in Windows Vista make it easier to manage mobility settings and make important information more accessible to more people. Use the new Windows Mobility Center to adjust the controls that matter most to people on the go. For example, from one simple dashboard, employees can configure their wireless connections, set brightness controls, and specify power-saving options for a fast on-and-off experience that extends battery life and helps protect data.
When your people use Tablet PCs running Windows Vista, they can count on precise and intuitive pen navigation with visual feedback and pen flicks. If touch input is available on their Tablet PCs, they can navigate their computers and use many controls with their fingertips rather than using a mouse or a tablet pen. In addition, Windows SideShow in Windows Vista supports a secondary or auxiliary display on the outside of a mobile PC, so your people can see their meeting schedules, important phone numbers, or recent e-mail messages without opening or turning on their computers.
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 | Sleep, Fast Startup | Restores previous work sessions from battery-saving "Sleep" state within a few seconds, so a mobile PC is up and running whenever it's needed. | |
| Windows Mobility Center and Presentation Settings | Makes it easy to locate the most frequently used mobile PC system settings—such as volume, screen brightness, wireless network connection status, and presentation settings. | |
| Windows Tablet and Touch Technology | Enhances pen functionality—called "Pen Flicks"—to quickly navigate with a tablet pen, and touch to easily control a Tablet PC with improved touch-screen support. (Experience better overall performance with improved handwriting recognition, digital ink erasing, and AutoComplete.) | |
| Windows SideShow | Stay productive while on the go without draining your battery. Use a Windows SideShow-compatible device with your mobile PC to check e-mail, calendar, to-do lists, weather, news, and more—even while your mobile PC is turned off or asleep. | |
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Windows Vista provides your employees with new ways to keep their information synchronized as they move between locations and use mobile devices. The Sync Center provides a single place to control data synchronization—between PCs and servers and between PCs and devices. In the event a PC issue arises, automatic diagnostic tools help employees solve the problem with easy-to-follow instructions.
New collaboration features help your people remain productive no matter where they're working or traveling. For example, Windows Meeting Space helps face-to-face, virtual meetings for as many as 10 users, on or off the corporate network. It allows meeting leaders to "project" their presentations onto other PCs running Windows Vista, and allows meeting members to collaborate on the fly, regardless of their location. Additionally, Windows Meeting Space offers security-enhanced document sharing and editing that eliminates time-consuming rework following a meeting.
And with SoftGrid, available in the optional subscription to the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, your employees get universal access to all their licensed applications—even their entire desktop—from any computer anywhere, aggregated on a single webpage and/or within a Windows desktop. Because applications are cached on the local device, people can even access their applications on their disconnected laptops.
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| Sync Center | Makes it easy to select and update files or folders and then automatically copies the latest versions to a mobile PC after disconnecting from a business network. | |
| Offline Files & Folders | Automatically synchronizes files from a mobile PC, Windows Mobile-based Smartphone, or PDA when connected to a corporate network. | |
| Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Tools | Automatically detects and diagnoses common problems so computer issues can be resolved quickly and with confidence. | |
| Windows Meeting Space | Connects as many as 10 mobile PCs wireless—even without an Internet connection—and lets users share and edit files as a group by "broadcasting" or streaming desktops or applications to other participants or to a Windows Vista-compliant network projector. Any changes made by any participant are immediately replicated on all other devices in a session. | |
| Network Center | Checks the status of network connections. | |
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Windows Vista includes the latest wireless security protocols, allowing your people to more securely connect to Wi-Fi networks. An added layer of security is in place with Network Access Protection, which works with Longhorn Server infrastructures to scan for viruses and determine if computers are secure before they can reconnect to the corporate network.
To help prevent theft of proprietary or sensitive information from lost or stolen mobile PCs, Windows Vista Enterprise delivers Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption. BitLocker prevents thieves from viewing files stored on protected drives.
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| Windows Bitlocker Encryption Technology | Protects the vital information on mobile PCs from theft, even if the PCs is lost, stolen, or decommissioned. With full-volume hard-drive encryption and boot integrity checking, BitLocker helps ensure data is not compromised. | |
| Wireless Security Protocol | Enhances support and performance of the latest wireless security protocols. | |
| Windows Security Center | Raises alerts when security software is not up-to-date or security settings become vulnerable. | |
| Windows Firewall and Windows Update | Stops malicious software from infecting mobile PCs by delivery the latest security updates. (Windows Update automatically updates malicious software definitions before each scan to provide better protection.) | |
| Windows Defender | Protects critical areas of mobile PCs with real-time monitoring agents that scan and remove malicious software. | |
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As you equip your workforce with mobile technology, Windows Vista will help reduce the time and expense associated with adding new employees, mobile PCs, or other mobile devices to your network. It enables you to more easily deploy mobile computers and keep them running smoothly and securely with less IT support. The remote and unattended installation capabilities in Windows Vista will help get your PCs up and running quickly, while new tools for mobile workers that detect, diagnose, and resolve PC issues will help you reduce support costs.
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| Group Policy Management | Centrally control or limit access to permitted wireless networks for each Windows Vista-enabled mobile PC to help keep your organization's communications, mobile PCs, and data safe. | |
| Windows Imaging Format | Enable remote and unattended installations with single-image deployment, so you can get PCs up and running and connected to your corporate network with fewer steps, reducing time and expense when you add new employees, mobile PCs, or other mobile devices. | |
| Diagnostic & Troubleshooting Tools | Automatically detect and diagnose common problems to make it easier for mobile PC users to resolve problems on their own. | |
| Remote Assistant | Reduce the time IT support staff spends on fixing complex and time-consuming issues. | |
| Application Compatibility Tools | Manage application compatibility more easily to save time and money. | |
| Program Compatibility Assistant | Automatically set an appropriate "compatibility mode" for applications designed to run on previous versions of Windows. | |
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Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware.
