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Microsoft Delivers Windows 7
During a keynote speech at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the beta release of the
Windows 7 features quicker initialization, power off, and resumption from sleep mode; no-hassle networking and resource access; consolidated device management; plus sophisticated touch-screen support. To see Microsoft's news release, visit Microsoft's Steve Balmer Introduces Windows 7
Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has put Windows 7 on End of Support status. Consequently Microsoft offers no technical support for any problems you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer produces software or security updates or patches. Even though computers powered by Windows 7 still operate, End of Support can result in a growing array of undesirable issues concerned with security, compliance, operation with new versions of apps, and even civil liability. If you are currently considering an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or 11, Progent's Windows 10 and 11 experts can help you to understand the possible advantages of a current release of Windows for your organization and can help you to design and execute a cost-effective migration to Windows 10 or 11 based on leading practices.
How Progent's Certified Experts Can Help Your Company to Maintain Windows 7
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can help your company to maintain your Windows 7 deployment and can also show you how to evaluate the potential business advantages of moving to a modern release of Windows. Progent can provide help with migrating to Windows 10 or moving to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or earlier releases of Windows.
Progent's consultants can provide a range of other low-cost support options to enhance the efficiency, dependability, protection, speed, and manageability of information networks that incorporate workstations based on
PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide range of affordable consulting and support services to assist your company to deploy, configure, repair, and manage workstations and laptops based on Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote assistance for single computers or notebooks or work with you to plan and implement a company-wide rollout of
Live Virtual Training for Workstation Programs
Progent offers live virtual education for an array of desktop programs and operating systems such as Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Windows XP and Vista. Live online learning provides all the benefits of traditional in-person sessions, including immediate communication between clients and trainers, but avoids the expenses of transportation and the hassle of trying to accommodate the availability of many students. Available to individuals or classes of any size, live online learning permits the trainer to conduct the class from a remote office and the students can be spread across an office or all over the country. Live online training supports proven learning tools such as virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared desktops. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specific subjects or extended in duration and broader in coverage. Teachers and clients can go through problems individually or as a group.
64-bit Migration Support for Windows 7 and Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is available in a 64-bit edition that represents a new standard for desktop reliability and capacity. Unfortunately, for the majority of businesses the transition to 64-bit processing is problematic because of the need to perform a clean setup on each desktop. This requires re-installing applications, backing up and recovering data files, and installing 64-bit drivers. Though businesses typically are already using 64-bit hardware, the work needed to take full advantage of this untapped potential can seem too time-consuming. Yet because Microsoft Windows 7 often calls for a from-scratch install, it can be a great opportunity to upgrade to 64-bit technology, which you can do with little or no incremental effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consulting experts have in-depth experience planning and performing massive, efficient OS migrations of in-place desktops and can help your organization leverage your IT budget by executing the move to Windows 7 and to 64-bit computing simultaneously.
Change and Update Management Automation
Progent's network administration professionals can show you how to create a computer network based around Windows 7 PCs that is easy to administer. Progent's consultants have in-depth backgrounds providing small and midsize businesses SMS Server consulting to streamline network administration's processes, improve network protection, boost productivity by ensuring that all patches and updates are installed, enforce software licensing compliance, and track characteristics of software usage to allow smarter purchasing strategy. In addition, Progent can assist you to make a smooth migration to System Center Configuration Manager 2007 from Systems Management Server for better management automation and can help you to move to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.
Network Security Inventory Scanning and Assessment Packages
Progent's certified security engineers can deliver a selection of budget-friendly security inventory service packages and enterprise security assessment service packages designed to give businesses of any size an opportunity to receive an objective opinion about the quality of their protection environment. The packages vary from an ultra-affordable external scan and evaluation package for small and midsize companies up to a high-level package for enterprises who have to comply with security standards required by government regulators or by customers. For each security assessment bundle, consultants with top security credentials evaluate and report on scanned data and provide recommendations for effective improvements.
High-availability Network Design
Progent's consulting experts can assist you to configure a high-availability system architecture that offers features such as Windows Hyper-V failover clustering, redundant Internet connections, network load balancing, and dispersed colocation sites. Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft and Cisco-Premier network professionals who can show you how to benefit from virtual machines to improve fault tolerance. Progent can also show you how to develop a complete business continuity plan that includes scheduled disaster recovery preparedness audits and testing.
Helpdesk Outsourcing and Consulting
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's remote Help Desk services team of trained technical professionals offers your customers easy access to a dependable support resource with years of experience delivering phone support and online repair for IT systems powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on giving the Call Center a respected reputation as a key contributor to business productivity. Progent's target is to fix rather than merely record problems. Progent can deliver full Helpdesk support or seamlessly reinforce your existing Call Center. Progent can also assist your company to identify and deploy the latest solutions for creating or enhancing your internal Help Desk.
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