Nov 15 2006
Windows Vista: Optimizing the Windows Desktop
Microsoft have recently created a new page on their Vista site that provides details on their new offering for Software Assurance customers. They’ve bundled up their recent purchases of Winternals, Softricity, and DesktopStandard into a free offering for those that sign up for Microsoft’s controversial licensing program. Here are some of the details from the site:
Using the solution’s virtualization, dynamic streaming and desktop manageability technologies, customers will:
- Improve PC manageability
- Streamline and accelerate the entire application management lifecycle from planning and predictable deployment, to using, maintaining and migrating software
- Further reduce total cost of ownership of the Windows desktop
- Enhance management of software assets
- Accelerate and simplify desktop deployments and migrations
- Reduce end-user downtime
- Increase IT and business agility
- Enhance change management process and roll backs
- Enhance group policy management
- Reduce downtime
- Provide end users with on-demand access to applications for which they are assigned