New IT Technology and Progent Solutions

In a speech at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta version of the Windows 7 OS. The beta edition of Windows was made available for a limited time for testing at select web sites. In the course of the presentation, CEO Balmer showed innovative capabilities and important improvements built into Windows and driven by consumer demands. Areas focused on by Windows 7, said Balmer, cover performance, security, dependability, functionality, battery life, and ease of use. In each of these categories, Windows 7 delivers significant improvement.

Microsoft Windows 7 features faster initialization, shut down, and resumption from standby; easier LAN configuration and resource sharing; centralized peripherals management; plus advanced multitouch technology. To read Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Beta

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has placed Windows 7 on End of Support status. This means that Microsoft offers no technical support for any issues you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer provides software or security fixes. Even though devices powered by Windows 7 still operate, End of Support status can bring about an expanding array of problems associated with security, compliance, compatibility with new releases of apps, and possibly even civil liability. If you are now considering a migration from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and Windows 11 consultants can help you to determine the potential benefit of a current release of Windows for your business and can assist you to design and carry out a cost-effective transition to Windows 10 or 11 that follows leading practices.

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist You to Maintain Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help you to manage your Windows 7 environment and can also show you how to estimate the potential strategic advantages of moving to a modern release of Windows. Progent offers help with upgrading to Windows 10 or moving to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or from prior versions of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consultants can provide a variety of other affordable services to enhance the efficiency, reliability, protection, performance, and manageability of information systems that incorporate workstations powered by Microsoft Windows 7:

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide range of affordable consulting and support services to help you to deploy, configure, repair, and administer workstations and laptops powered by Windows. Progent can offer onsite or online assistance for individual machines or laptops or work with your business to design and carry out a large-scale rollout of Windows 7. Progent can also configure Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they communicate efficiently with all Microsoft programs, products from popular publishers, business servers, and key solutions network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to help your company to plan for and complete an office relocation or merger organized to produce the least possible interruption to your business.

Virtual Learning for Desktop Programs
Progent provides online virtual learning for popular client programs and operating systems such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Virtual education provides all the advantages of conventional classroom sessions, including immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but eliminates the expenses of transportation and the hassle of attempting to accommodate the schedules of multiple students. Available to individuals or groups of any size, virtual learning permits the teacher to run the class from a remote office while the students can be dispersed across an office or across the the U.S. Live online learning supports proven teaching tools such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and collaborative desktops. Classes can be short and personalized for specific topics or extended in duration and broader in coverage. Instructors and students can work through problems one-on-one or as a group.

64-bit Migration Consulting for Windows 7 and Windows Servers
Windows 7 is available in a 64-bit version that represents a new benchmark for workstation dependability and performance. Unfortunately, for most organizations the transition to 64-bit processing is problematic due to the requirement to make a new installation on every workstation. This requires reconfiguring applications, saving and restoring data files, and running new drivers. Although businesses in most cases are already using 64-bit hardware, the work required to take full advantage of this potential resource can seem too time-consuming. Yet because Microsoft Windows 7 often calls for a clean installation, it can be a good time to move up to 64-bit computing, which takes little additional effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} engineers have extensive experience planning and performing major, minimally disruptive operating system migrations of existing desktops and can help your organization leverage your network dollars by executing the transition to Microsoft Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology simultaneously.

Change Management Automation
Progent's IT administration experts can show you how to create a computer network based around Microsoft Windows 7 workstations that is easy to manage. Progent's consultants have in-depth backgrounds providing small companies SMS Server consulting to reduce network management's workload, increase system security, boost efficiency by making sure that all application updates are installed, police licensing adherence, and track characteristics of software use to allow smarter purchasing strategy. In addition, Progent can assist you to execute a smooth migration to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from Systems Management Server for more complete management automation and can assist your business to move to Windows Server 2008.

Network Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's premier security engineers can deliver a variety of cost-effective network security inventory service packages and network security assessment service packages designed to give businesses of any size a chance to receive an independent opinion about the strength of their security profile. The packages vary from a low-cost external scan and evaluation option for small companies up to a high-level solution for institutions who have to comply with security standards demanded by government agencies or by vendors. For every security assessment package, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned data and provide recommendations for effective remediation.

Fault-tolerant System Infrastructure
Progent's consulting professionals can assist you to implement a high-availability network infrastructure with features that can include Windows Hyper-V failover clustering, auto-failover Internet access, system load balancing, and dispersed colocation sites. Progent provides access to Microsoft and Cisco-Certified network engineers who can help you utilize virtual machines to enhance fault tolerance. Progent can also show you how to define a complete business continuity strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster response preparedness audits and testing.

Call Center Outsourcing and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Certified Partner and Progent's online Help Desk services team of authorized technical professionals offers your customers convenient access to a reliable support resource with extensive experience providing telephone assistance and remote access troubleshooting for IT systems powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on earning the Help Desk a respected image as a solid contributor to business performance. Progent's target is to fix rather than merely record problems. Progent offers full Call Center support or transparently supplement your current Call Center. Progent can in addition help your company to identify and deploy the latest solutions for creating or enhancing your in-house Call Center.

To learn additional information concerning Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.