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In a talk at the 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's head Steve Ballmer introduced the beta version of the Windows 7 operating system. The beta version of Windows was available for a limited time for evaluation at select sites. During the address, Balmer showed innovative capabilities and key improvements incorporated into Windows and driven by market feedback. Areas focused on by Windows 7, according to Balmer, cover performance, protection, reliability, compatibility, battery life, and ease of use. In all of these categories, Windows 7 delivers dramatic improvement.

Microsoft Windows 7 features quicker startup, power off, and resumption from standby; easier networking and file and printer sharing; consolidated peripherals administration; plus multiple finger multitouch support. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft's CEO Introduces Windows 7 Beta

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has put Windows 7 on End of Support status. Consequently Microsoft will offer no technical support for any problems you encounter with Windows 7 and no longer provides software or security updates. Even though computers running Windows 7 still function, End of Support status can result in a growing list of undesirable issues associated with cybersecurity, compliance, compatibility with new releases of apps, and possibly even liability. If you are currently evaluating an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or Windows 11, Progent's Windows 10 and 11 experts can help you to determine the possible benefit of a current version of Windows for your organization and can assist you to design and execute an efficient transition to Windows 10 or 11 that follows best practices.

How Progent's Certified Professionals Can Assist Your Business to Manage Microsoft Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help your company to manage your Windows 7 environment and can also help you to estimate the likely strategic benefits of adopting a current release of Microsoft Windows. Progent offers help with migrating to Windows 10 or migrating to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or prior versions of Windows.

Progent's IT professionals can provide a variety of other low-cost services to enhance the efficiency, dependability, security, speed, and maintainability of IT networks that incorporate workstations powered by Microsoft Windows 7:

Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants can deliver a wide range of affordable support services to help your company to deploy, integrate, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can offer onsite or remote assistance for single machines or notebooks or help you to plan and carry out a company-wide migration to Microsoft Windows 7. Progent can also configure Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with all Microsoft programs, software from popular publishers, business servers, and key solutions network-wide. Progent can also supply engineers and technical workers to help your company to plan for and implement an office relocation or merger organized to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Live Virtual Instruction for Workstation Applications
Progent offers online virtual instruction for a range of client programs and operating systems such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Virtual instruction provides the advantages of traditional classroom seminars, including immediate communication between students and teachers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of many trainees. Available to individuals or groups of all sizes, live online learning permits the trainer to run the seminar from a remote office and the students can be dispersed throughout a campus or across the country. Live online learning supports powerful teaching aids like broadcast white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared desktops. Sessions can be short and targeted for specific subjects or longer in duration and broader in scope. Instructors and students can work through examples individually or as a group.

64-bit Migration Help for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit version that sets a new benchmark for workstation reliability and performance. Unfortunately, for the majority of businesses the upgrade to 64-bit processing is problematic because of the need to perform a new setup on each workstation. This entails reconfiguring programs, backing up and recovering data, and installing 64-bit device drivers. Though companies usually are already using 64-bit workstations, the work needed to benefit fully from these resources can seem excessively time-consuming. Yet since Microsoft Windows 7 usually requires a from-scratch installation, it can be a good opportunity to upgrade to 64-bit computing, which requires little if any additional effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consultants have in-depth experience planning and implementing major, efficient operating system migrations of in-place workstations and can assist your business get the most out of your network budget by performing the transition to Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology at the same time.

Change Automation
Progent's network management professionals can show you how to set up an information system based around Microsoft Windows 7 PCs that is easy to manage. Progent's engineers have in-depth experience delivering small and midsize businesses Systems Management Server 2003 consulting to streamline IT management's processes, increase system protection, boost efficiency by making sure that all patches and updates are current, police licensing adherence, and monitor patterns of application usage to allow smarter purchasing strategy. Also, Progent can assist your company to execute a non-disruptive upgrade to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from SMS Server for better administration automation and can help your business to move to Windows Server 2008.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's premier security consultants can deliver a variety of cost-effective security inventory service packages and enterprise network security assessment service bundles designed to give businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive an independent look at the strength of their protection environment. These packages range from a low-cost external scan and assessment package for small and midsize companies up to a high-level solution for institutions who need to comply with security standards demanded by state agencies or by vendors. For every security assessment bundle, consultants with high-level security credentials analyze and report on scanned information and make suggestions for efficient improvements.

Fault-tolerant System Infrastructure
Progent's consulting professionals can help your company to configure a high-availability system infrastructure that offers features that can include Windows Hyper-V clustering, auto-failover Internet access, network load balancing, and dispersed colocation sites. Progent provides access to Microsoft and Cisco-Premier consulting engineers who can help you benefit from virtualization to improve availability. Progent can also show you how to create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster response evaluations and testing.

Call Center Outsourcing and Consulting
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's remote Help Desk support staff of certified IT professionals offers your clients convenient access to a dependable technical group with years of background providing telephone assistance and remote access repair for IT systems based on Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on earning the Help Desk a respected image as a key contributor to business productivity. Progent's goal is to resolve and not simply record problems. Progent offers comprehensive Call Center support or transparently supplement your existing Help Desk. Progent can also help your company to select and implement the most advanced solutions for creating or improving your internal Helpdesk.

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