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In a keynote speech at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer announced the beta release of Windows 7. The beta version of Windows was made available for a limited time for testing at several sites. During the address, Balmer demonstrated new features and key improvements built into Windows and inspired by market feedback. Areas focused on by Windows 7, said Balmer, cover performance, security, reliability, functionality, battery life, and intuitive operation. In all of these categories, Windows 7 offers dramatic advantages.

Windows 7 includes quicker initialization, power off, and recovery from standby; no-hassle networking and file and printer access; centralized device management; as well as advanced touch-screen support. To read Microsoft's news release, refer to Microsoft's Steve Balmer Announces Availability of Windows 7

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has placed Windows 7 on End of Support status. Consequently Microsoft offers no technical support for any issues with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer provides software or security updates. Even though computers powered by Windows 7 still function, End of Support status can bring about an expanding list of problems associated with cybersecurity, compliance, operation with new versions of apps, and even liability. If your company is currently considering an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or Windows 11, Progent's Windows 10 and 11 consultants can assist you to determine the possible advantages of a modern 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 that follows leading practices.

How Progent's Consulting Professionals Can Help You to Maintain Microsoft Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can assist you to maintain your Microsoft Windows 7 environment and can also show you how to estimate the potential business benefits of adopting a modern version of Windows. Progent can provide help with migrating to Windows 10 or moving to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or from prior releases of Microsoft Windows.

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

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts offer a wide range of affordable services to help your business to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and laptops based on Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote assistance for single machines or notebooks or work with your business to design and implement a company-wide migration to Windows 7. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your workstations so they communicate efficiently with all Microsoft applications, products from third-party publishers, business servers, and key services network-wide. Progent can also supply engineers and technical workers to help you to prepare for and implement an office relocation or consolidation organized to produce minimal interruption to your business.

Virtual Training for Desktop Programs
Progent offers live virtual training for popular client programs and environments such as Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online learning provides all the advantages of traditional in-person seminars, such as instant communication between clients and teachers, but eliminates the costs of travel and the hassle of attempting to accommodate the availability of multiple workers. Offered to individuals or classes of all sizes, virtual education permits the teacher to run the class from an online office and the clients can be dispersed throughout a campus or across the country. Virtual instruction deploys powerful learning mechanisms such as virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared applications. Classes can be brief and targeted for specialized subjects or longer in time and wider in scope. Instructors and clients can go through problems individually or as a class.

64-bit Upgrade Help for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit edition that represents a new standard for workstation dependability and capacity. Unfortunately, for the majority of organizations the migration to 64-bit processing is problematic because of the need to make a clean setup on every PC. This involves re-installing applications, saving and recovering data, and installing new device drivers. Although companies usually already have 64-bit computers, the work needed to take full advantage of this untapped potential can seem too difficult. But since Microsoft Windows 7 often requires a from-scratch installation, this represents a good opportunity to upgrade to 64-bit performance, which can be done with little if any extra effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consultants have in-depth experience planning and implementing massive, minimally disruptive OS upgrades of in-place desktops and can assist your business leverage your network budget by performing the migration to Microsoft Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing at the same time.

Change and Update Automation
Progent's IT management experts can help you set up an information network based on Windows 7 PCs that is easy to manage. Progent's consultants have extensive experience delivering small businesses Microsoft SMS Server expertise to streamline IT administration's processes, improve system security, improve efficiency by making sure that all patches and updates are installed, enforce licensing compliance, and monitor characteristics of software use to allow smarter purchasing plan. In addition, Progent can help you to carry out a smooth migration to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from Microsoft SMS Server 2003 for more comprehensive management automation and can assist you to upgrade to Windows Server 2008.

Network Security Inventory Scanning and Evaluation Packages
Progent's premier security consultants can provide a variety of budget-friendly small business network security inventory service packages and enterprise network security evaluation service bundles created to give organizations of any size an opportunity to receive an impartial look at the quality of their protection profile. The packages range from a low-cost external scan and assessment option for small and midsize companies up to a high-level package for institutions who need to comply with security levels demanded by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation bundle, consultants with high-level security accreditations analyze and report on collected data and make suggestions for efficient remediation.

Fault-tolerant System Design
Progent's consulting professionals can help your company to configure a high-availability system infrastructure with features that can include Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V failover clustering, redundant Internet connections, network load balancing, and dispersed colocation sites. Progent provides the expertise of Microsoft and Cisco-Certified network professionals who can help you benefit from virtual machines to improve fault tolerance. Progent can also help create a comprehensive business continuity strategy that incorporates periodic disaster response assessments 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 technical professionals offers your customers convenient access to a reliable support group with extensive experience providing phone support and remote access repair for IT systems powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on earning the Call Center a positive image as a solid contributor to business performance. Progent's goal is to resolve rather than merely report problems. Progent can deliver comprehensive Helpdesk support or seamlessly supplement your existing Call Center. Progent can also assist your company to identify and deploy the most advanced technology for creating or enhancing your internal Call Center.

To find out additional information concerning Progent's consulting expertise for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.