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In a speech at the 2009 CES Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft's head Steve Ballmer introduced the beta version of Windows 7. The next edition of Windows was offered for a limited time for assessment at select sites. In the course of the CES talk, CEO Balmer showed new capabilities and key enhancements built into Windows and driven by consumer feedback. Areas focused on by Windows 7, said Balmer, cover performance, protection, dependability, functionality, battery life, and ease of use. In each of these categories, Windows 7 offers significant advantages.

Microsoft Windows 7 features faster initialization, shut down, and recovery from standby; no-hassle networking and resource access; consolidated device management; plus sophisticated touch-screen technology. To view Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft's CEO Announces Availability of Microsoft Windows 7

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has put Windows 7 on End of Support status. Consequently Microsoft will offer no technical assistance for any problems you encounter with Windows 7 and no longer produces software or security updates or patches. Although computers powered by Windows 7 still function, End of Support can result in an expanding list of problems associated with cybersecurity, compliance, operation with new releases of apps, and even civil liability. If you are currently considering a migration from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and Windows 11 consultants can assist you to determine the potential benefit of a current release of Windows for your organization and can assist you to plan and carry out a cost-effective transition to Windows 10 or Windows 11 based on leading practices.

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Help You to Manage Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can assist your company to manage your Microsoft Windows 7 environment and can also show you how to assess the likely strategic value of adopting a modern version of Windows. Progent offers help with upgrading to Windows 10 or moving to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or from earlier versions of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consulting experts offer a variety of other low-cost support options to enhance the productivity, reliability, security, speed, and maintainability of IT systems that incorporate workstations based on Windows 7:

Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft Gold certified desktop support experts offer a wide range of cost-effective support services to assist your business to deploy, configure, troubleshoot, and manage workstations and notebooks powered by Windows. Progent can provide onsite or online assistance for individual computers or notebooks or work with your business to design and carry out a large-scale rollout of Microsoft Windows 7. Progent can also configure Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your workstations so they integrate productively with all Microsoft programs, products from third-party publishers, SQL databases, and line-of-business solutions throughout your network. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and complete an office move or consolidation designed to produce the least possible disruption of your productivity.

Live Virtual Training for Workstation Applications
Progent provides live virtual training for popular desktop programs and operating systems such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Virtual education offers the advantages of conventional in-person seminars, such as instant communication between students and trainers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the availability of many workers. Available to individuals or groups of any size, live online education permits the teacher to run the seminar from an online office while the clients can be spread across a campus or across the country. Virtual education deploys proven learning aids such as broadcast white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Classes can be brief and personalized for specific subjects or extended in time and broader in scope. Teachers and clients can work through problems individually or as a class.

64-bit Transitioning Help for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit edition that represents a new benchmark for workstation dependability and capacity. However, for the majority of organizations the transition to 64-bit processing is problematic due to the requirement to make a new setup on each workstation. This involves reconfiguring applications, backing up and restoring data files, and running new drivers. Though companies usually are already using 64-bit hardware, the effort required to take full advantage of these resources can seem too time-consuming. Yet since Microsoft Windows 7 often calls for a from-scratch install, it can be a great time to move up to 64-bit computing, which you can do with little if any incremental effort. Progent's Microsoft consultants have in-depth experience planning and performing massive, efficient OS upgrades of in-place workstations and can help your company leverage your IT dollars by performing the transition to Microsoft Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing simultaneously.

Change and Update Management Automation
Progent's IT administration professionals can help you create a computer network built on Windows 7 PCs that is easy to administer. Progent's consultants have extensive experience delivering small companies Microsoft SMS Server consulting to reduce network management's workload, improve network protection, boost productivity by making sure that all patches and updates are installed, police licensing compliance, and monitor characteristics of application use to allow a more efficient purchasing plan. In addition, Progent can help you to make a smooth upgrade to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager from Systems Management Server 2003 for better administration automation and can help you to upgrade to Windows Server 2008.

Network Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's premier security consultants can deliver a variety of cost-effective security inventory service bundles and security assessment packages created to give organizations of all sizes an opportunity to get an independent opinion about the strength of their protection profile. The packages vary from a low-cost external scan and assessment package for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level package for corporations who have to meet security levels required by government agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation package, engineers with top security accreditations evaluate and report on collected information and provide recommendations for efficient remediation.

High-availability System Infrastructure
Progent�s consulting experts can assist you to configure a high-availability system infrastructure that offers features that can include Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V failover clustering, auto-failover Internet connections, network load balancing, and strategic colocation sites. Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft and Cisco-Certified consulting engineers who can help you utilize virtualization to improve availability. Progent can also help define a complete business continuity strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster response preparedness audits and testing.

Helpdesk Support and Consulting
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Certified Partner and Progent's online Help Desk support team of certified technical professionals gives your customers easy access to a dependable technical resource with years of background delivering telephone assistance and remote access repair for IT systems based on Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on giving the Helpdesk a respected reputation as a solid contributor to company productivity. Progent's goal is to resolve rather than merely report problems. Progent can deliver comprehensive Call Center support or transparently supplement your existing Call Center. Progent can in addition assist you to select and implement the latest solutions for creating or enhancing your internal Help Desk.

For more information about Progent's consulting services for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.