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During a speech at the 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta release of the Windows 7 operating system. The next edition of Windows was available for a limited time for downloading at several sites. In the course of the CES talk, CEO Balmer showed new features and key enhancements built into Windows and driven by consumer demands. Areas addressed by Windows 7, said Balmer, cover speed, security, dependability, compatibility, battery life, and ease of use. In all of these categories, Windows 7 delivers significant improvement.

Microsoft Windows 7 includes faster startup, shut down, and recovery from standby; no-hassle LAN configuration and resource sharing; consolidated device administration; as well as advanced multitouch technology. To read Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft's CEO Introduces Microsoft Windows 7

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has placed Windows 7 on End of Support status. This means that Microsoft will offer no technical assistance for any issues with Windows 7 and no longer distributes software or security patches. Although computers running Windows 7 still function, End of Support can bring about a growing array of undesirable issues concerned with cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, compatibility with new versions of applications, and possibly even civil liability. If you are now evaluating a migration from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and 11 experts can help you to understand the potential advantages of a modern version of Windows for your business and can help you to plan and carry out a cost-effective transition to Windows 10 or Windows 11 based on best practices.

How Progent's Consulting Engineers Can Assist Your Business to Maintain Microsoft Windows 7
Progent's certified engineers can assist your company to maintain your Windows 7 deployment and can also help you to evaluate the likely business advantages of adopting a current release of Windows. Progent offers assistance with migrating to Windows 10 or moving to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or from prior releases of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consulting experts can provide a range of other affordable support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, performance, and maintainability of information systems that incorporate desktops powered by Microsoft Windows 7:

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support consultants offer a wide range of affordable consulting and support services to assist your company to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and notebooks based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online assistance for single machines or laptops or help your business to plan and carry out a company-wide migration to Windows 7. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with all Microsoft programs, products from third-party vendors, database servers, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and implement an office move or merger designed to cause minimal interruption to your productivity.

Live Virtual Learning for Desktop Applications
Progent provides online virtual learning for an array of desktop programs and environments such as Office Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online education provides the benefits of traditional in-person seminars, such as immediate communication between students and trainers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the hassle of attempting to accommodate the schedules of multiple workers. Available to single students or classes of all sizes, virtual learning permits the trainer to run the seminar from a remote office while the students can be dispersed throughout a campus or across the the U.S. Virtual training supports proven teaching aids like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Sessions can be short and targeted for specific topics or extended in time and broader in coverage. Teachers and clients can go through problems one-on-one or as a group.

64-bit Migration Consulting for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit edition that represents a new benchmark for workstation reliability and performance. However, for most organizations the upgrade to 64-bit processing is problematic because of the need to make a clean installation on each PC. This involves reconfiguring applications, backing up and restoring data, and running 64-bit drivers. Though companies usually already have 64-bit hardware, the work needed to take full advantage of these resources often seems too difficult. Yet since Windows 7 often calls for a clean install, this represents a good time to upgrade to 64-bit reliability and performance, which is possible with little more effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers have in-depth backgrounds planning and performing massive, efficient operating system migrations of existing desktops and can assist your business leverage your IT budget by performing the transition to Microsoft Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing at the same time.

Update Management Automation
Progent's network administration professionals can show you how to set up an information network based on Windows 7 PCs that is simple to administer. Progent's engineers have extensive backgrounds delivering small businesses Systems Management Server expertise to streamline network management's workload, increase network protection, boost efficiency by ensuring that all application updates are current, enforce software licensing compliance, and track patterns of software use to enable smarter purchasing strategy. In addition, Progent can assist you to execute a smooth upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from SMS Server 2003 for more complete management automation and can help you to move to Windows Server 2008.

Security Inventory Scanning and Evaluation Packages
Progent's premier security engineers can provide a variety of cost-effective security inventory bundles and security assessment packages created to give organizations of all sizes a chance to get an objective opinion about the strength of their security environment. The packages range from an ultra-affordable external scan and assessment option for small and midsize companies up to a high-end solution for corporations who need to comply with security standards demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with top security accreditations analyze and report on collected information and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

Fault-tolerant System Design
Progent�s consulting experts can assist you to configure a high-availability network infrastructure that offers features that can include Microsoft Windows Hyper-V failover clustering, auto-failover Internet access, network load balancing, and dispersed colocation sites. Progent offers access to Microsoft and Cisco-Premier network professionals who can show you how to benefit from virtual machines to improve availability. Progent can also help you develop a comprehensive business continuity strategy that includes scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and testing.

Call Center Outsourcing and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Certified Partner and Progent's online Help Desk services staff of certified IT professionals offers your customers easy access to a reliable technical resource with extensive background providing phone support and remote access repair for IT systems powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on giving the Call Center a respected image as a key contributor to business productivity. Progent's target is to fix rather than simply record problems. Progent offers comprehensive Call Center outsourcing or transparently reinforce your existing Call Center. Progent can also assist you to identify and implement the latest solutions for creating or enhancing your in-house Call Center.

For additional information about Progent's support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.