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During a keynote speech at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer introduced the beta availability of Windows 7. The beta edition of Windows was available temporarily for evaluation at select web sites. During the presentation, Balmer demonstrated new capabilities and important enhancements incorporated into Windows and inspired by market demands. Aspects focused on by Windows 7, said Balmer, cover performance, protection, dependability, functionality, energy efficiency, and simplicity. In all of these categories, Windows 7 offers dramatic improvement.

Microsoft Windows 7 includes faster initialization, shut down, and resumption from sleep mode; no-hassle networking and file and printer access; consolidated device administration; plus advanced multitouch technology. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft's Chief Executive Introduces 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 problems you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer provides software or security updates or patches. Although computers powered by Windows 7 still operate, End of Support can bring about an expanding array of undesirable issues associated with cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, compatibility with new versions of applications, and possibly even liability. If you are now evaluating a migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and Windows 11 consultants can help you to understand the possible benefit of a modern release of Windows for your business and can assist you to design and execute a cost-effective migration to Windows 10 or Windows 11 based on best practices.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Engineers Can Assist Your Company to Manage Microsoft Windows 7
Progent's certified consultants can help your company to maintain your Windows 7 environment and can also help you to evaluate the potential business benefits of moving to a current version of Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide assistance with migrating to Windows 10 or migrating to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or earlier releases of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consultants can provide a range of other low-cost services to enhance the efficiency, dependability, security, performance, and maintainability of IT systems that incorporate workstations powered by Windows 7:

Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts offer a wide array of cost-effective services to help your company to deploy, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and laptops powered by Windows. Progent can offer on-premises or online help for individual computers or notebooks or help your business to plan and carry out a large-scale migration to Microsoft Windows 7. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your client PCs so they integrate productively with other Microsoft applications, products from third-party publishers, database servers, and key solutions network-wide. Progent can also supply engineers and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and complete a site move or consolidation organized to cause minimal disruption of your business.

Virtual Instruction for Desktop Applications
Progent offers online virtual education for a range of client applications and environments including Office Excel, Word, Publisher, Visio, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual instruction provides all the benefits of conventional classroom sessions, including immediate interaction between students and trainers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the challenge of attempting to synchronize the availability of multiple workers. Offered to single students or classes of any size, virtual instruction permits the instructor to run the seminar from a remote facility and the clients can be dispersed across an office or all over the country. Virtual learning utilizes proven teaching tools like broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative desktops. Sessions can be short and personalized for specific topics or longer in time and wider in coverage. Teachers and students can go through problems individually or as a group.

64-bit Transitioning Help for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit version that represents a new standard for workstation dependability and capacity. However, for the majority of organizations the transition to 64-bit technology is challenging because of the requirement to perform a new installation on every workstation. This requires re-installing applications, backing up and recovering data, and installing 64-bit device drivers. Though companies in most cases already have 64-bit workstations, the effort needed to benefit fully from these resources often seems excessively difficult. But since Microsoft Windows 7 usually calls for a from-scratch install, this can be a good time to move up to 64-bit computing, which takes little or no incremental effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consulting experts have extensive backgrounds designing and performing major, efficient OS migrations of in-place desktops and can help your company leverage your IT dollars by performing the upgrade to Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology simultaneously.

Change Automation
Progent's network management professionals can show you how to create a computer system based on Microsoft Windows 7 PCs that is easy to administer. Progent's consultants have in-depth experience providing small businesses Microsoft SMS Server consulting to reduce network management's processes, improve system protection, boost efficiency by making sure that all patches and updates are current, police software licensing adherence, and track characteristics of software use to enable smarter purchasing strategy. In addition, Progent can assist you to execute a smooth upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager from Systems Management Server 2003 for more comprehensive administration automation and can assist your business to move to Windows Server 2008.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's certified security consultants can provide a variety of budget-friendly small business security inventory service bundles and network security assessment service packages created to offer businesses of any size an opportunity to receive an independent opinion about the quality of their protection environment. The packages range from a low-cost external scan and evaluation package for small and midsize businesses up to a high-end solution for corporations who need to comply with security levels required by government regulators or by vendors. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize collected data and provide recommendations for efficient remediation.

High-availability System Infrastructure
Progent's consulting experts can assist you to configure a fault-tolerant network architecture that offers features such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V failover clustering, redundant Internet connections, network load balancing, and strategic colocation sites. Progent provides the services of Microsoft and Cisco-Premier network professionals who can show you how to benefit from virtual machines to enhance availability. Progent can also help you develop a complete business continuity plan that includes periodic disaster recovery preparedness audits and drills.

Helpdesk Outsourcing and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's online Help Desk support team of trained IT professionals offers your clients convenient access to a dependable support resource with extensive experience providing phone assistance and online repair for IT systems powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on giving the Call Center a respected image as a solid contributor to business productivity. Progent's target is to resolve rather than merely report problems. Progent offers comprehensive Help Desk support or seamlessly reinforce your existing Helpdesk. Progent can in addition help your company to select and implement the most advanced technology for creating or improving your internal Helpdesk.

For more details concerning Progent's consulting support for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.