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During a presentation at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the beta version of Windows 7. The beta version of Windows was offered for a limited time for evaluation at select Microsoft sites. During the presentation, Balmer demonstrated new features and key improvements incorporated into Windows and driven by consumer feedback. Aspects addressed by Windows 7, according to Balmer, cover performance, protection, dependability, functionality, battery life, and intuitive operation. In all of these categories, Windows 7 offers significant improvement.

Microsoft Windows 7 features quicker initialization, power off, and wakeup from standby; no-hassle LAN configuration and file and printer access; centralized peripherals administration; plus advanced touch-screen support. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Previews Microsoft Windows 7

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has put Windows 7 on End of Support status. This means that Microsoft will offer no technical support for any issues you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer distributes software or security patches. Although devices running Windows 7 still operate, End of Support status can bring about a growing list of undesirable issues concerned with cybersecurity, compliance, compatibility with new releases 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 experts can help you to determine the potential advantages of a current version of Windows for your organization and can assist you to design and carry out an efficient migration to Windows 10 or 11 based on leading practices.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Experts Can Assist Your Business to Manage Microsoft Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can help your company to manage your Microsoft Windows 7 deployment and can also help you to evaluate the potential strategic value of adopting a current release of Microsoft Windows. Progent offers help with moving to Windows 10 or upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or from prior releases of Windows.

Progent's IT professionals offer a range of other affordable support options to enhance the productivity, dependability, protection, speed, and manageability of information systems that include desktops based on Windows 7:

PC Desktop Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support consultants offer a wide range of cost-effective consulting and support services to help your business to deploy, configure, repair, and administer desktop PCs and laptops based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can offer onsite or online assistance for individual computers or notebooks or help you to design and implement a company-wide migration to Microsoft Windows 7. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft applications, software from third-party vendors, SQL databases, and key services network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to help you to prepare for and implement a site relocation or merger designed to cause minimal disruption of your business.

Live Virtual Instruction for Workstation Programs
Progent offers online virtual training for popular desktop applications and operating systems such as Microsoft Excel, Word, Publisher, Project, Acrobat, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual training provides the advantages of traditional in-person sessions, such as immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but avoids the costs of travel and the hassle of trying to accommodate the schedules of multiple workers. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, virtual learning permits the teacher to run the class from an online office while the clients can be spread throughout a campus or across the country. Virtual learning deploys proven learning aids like virtual white boards, real-time questions, and collaborative applications. Classes can be brief and personalized for specific topics or extended in time and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can go through examples one-on-one or as a class.

64-bit Upgrade Support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is available in a 64-bit edition that represents a new benchmark for desktop reliability and performance. Unfortunately, for most businesses the upgrade to 64-bit technology is problematic due to the requirement to perform a new installation on each PC. This involves re-installing applications, saving and recovering data files, and installing 64-bit device drivers. Though companies usually are already using 64-bit PCs, the work required to take full advantage of these resources can seem too time-consuming. Yet since Windows 7 usually requires a clean install, this can be a great opportunity to move up to 64-bit performance, which takes little more work. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consulting experts have extensive backgrounds planning and implementing major, minimally disruptive OS migrations of in-place desktops and can assist your company get the most out of your network dollars by performing the upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology at the same time.

Update Management Automation
Progent's IT management professionals can show you how to set up a computer system based on Microsoft Windows 7 PCs that is simple to administer. Progent's consultants have in-depth backgrounds delivering small companies Systems Management Server consulting to reduce IT management's processes, improve system protection, improve productivity by ensuring that all application updates are current, police software licensing compliance, and monitor characteristics of software use to allow a more efficient purchasing plan. In addition, Progent can assist you to carry out a smooth migration to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager from Microsoft SMS Server for more complete management automation and can help your business to move to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

Network Security Inventory Scanning and Evaluation Packages
Progent's certified security consultants can provide a selection of cost-effective small business security inventory bundles and network security assessment bundles designed to give businesses of all sizes an opportunity to receive an independent opinion about the quality of their protection profile. These packages vary from an ultra-affordable external security scan and evaluation option for small companies up to a high-end solution for corporations who have to comply with security levels demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security credentials analyze and summarize scanned data and provide suggestions for efficient improvements.

High-availability System Design
Progent's consulting professionals can assist your company to implement a high-availability network architecture with features such as Microsoft Windows Hyper-V clustering, redundant Internet connections, network load balancing, and dispersed data centers. Progent provides the expertise of Microsoft and Cisco-Certified consulting engineers who can show you how to utilize virtualization to enhance availability. Progent can also show you how to create a complete disaster recovery strategy that includes scheduled disaster response assessments and testing.

Helpdesk Support and Consulting
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's online Help Desk services staff of certified IT professionals offers your clients instant access to a dependable support resource with extensive experience delivering phone support and online troubleshooting for IT systems based on Microsoft and Cisco products. Progent's focus is on giving the Help Desk a positive image as a key contributor to business productivity. Progent's target is to resolve and not merely report problems. Progent can deliver full Helpdesk outsourcing or transparently supplement your current Help Desk. Progent can in addition help you to identify and implement the latest solutions for creating or enhancing your internal Help Desk.

To find out more information about Progent's consulting support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.