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During a talk at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the beta version of the Windows 7 operating system. The beta version of Windows was offered for a limited time for testing at several web sites. During the CES talk, Balmer showed new features and key enhancements built into Windows and inspired by customer feedback. Areas focused on by Windows 7, said Balmer, include performance, security, reliability, compatibility, battery life, and intuitive operation. In all of these areas, Windows 7 delivers significant improvement.

Windows 7 features quicker initialization, shut down, and resumption from standby; no-hassle LAN configuration and resource sharing; centralized peripherals management; plus multiple finger touch-screen technology. To see Microsoft's press release, refer to Microsoft Announces Availability of 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 support for any issues you encounter with Windows 7 and Microsoft no longer produces software or security updates. Even though devices running Windows 7 still function, End of Support can result in a growing array of undesirable issues concerned with security, compliance, compatibility with new versions of applications, and even liability. If your company is currently evaluating an upgrade from Microsoft Windows 7 to Windows 10 or Windows 11, Progent's Windows 10 and 11 experts can assist you to understand the possible benefit of a current release of Windows for your organization and can assist you to plan and execute a cost-effective migration to Windows 10 or Windows 11 that follows best practices.

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist Your Company to Maintain Windows 7
Progent's certified engineers can help your company to manage your Windows 7 environment and can also show you how to estimate the likely business value of moving to a current release of Windows. Progent can provide assistance with upgrading to Windows 10 or migrating to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or previous versions of Microsoft Windows.

Progent's consulting experts offer a range of other affordable services to improve the efficiency, dependability, protection, speed, and manageability of IT systems that include desktops based on Windows 7:

PC Desktop Consulting and Support Services
Progent's certified desktop support experts can deliver a wide array of cost-effective services to assist your company to install, configure, repair, and administer workstations and notebooks powered by Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote help for individual computers or notebooks or help you to design and carry out a company-wide rollout of Windows 7. Progent can also install Office or Microsoft Dynamics programs on your workstations so they integrate productively with other Microsoft applications, software from third-party vendors, database servers, and key services network-wide. Progent can also provide consultants and technical workers to help you to prepare for and implement an office relocation or consolidation organized to produce the least possible disruption of your productivity.

Virtual Education for Workstation Programs
Progent provides online virtual instruction for an array of desktop programs and operating systems such as Excel, Word, Publisher, Outlook, Acrobat Writer, Adobe Photoshop, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. Live online training provides all the advantages of traditional classroom seminars, including immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but eliminates the costs of transportation and the challenge of trying to synchronize the availability of multiple workers. Available to individuals or groups of any size, live online instruction permits the trainer to conduct the seminar from an online facility while the clients can be spread throughout a campus or all over the the U.S. Virtual instruction deploys powerful learning mechanisms like virtual white boards, electronic hand-raising, and shared desktops. Sessions can be short and targeted for specialized subjects or extended in time and wider in coverage. Teachers and students can go through problems one-on-one or as a class.

64-bit Transitioning Help for Windows 7 and Windows Servers
Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit version that sets a new benchmark for desktop dependability and capacity. However, for the majority of businesses the transition to 64-bit processing is problematic due to the requirement to make a new setup on each desktop. This requires reconfiguring applications, backing up and restoring data files, and installing 64-bit device drivers. Although businesses usually are already using 64-bit computers, the work needed to benefit fully from these resources often seems too difficult. But since Windows 7 often calls for a from-scratch installation, this can be a great time to move up to 64-bit computing, which can be done with little extra work. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consultants have extensive backgrounds planning and performing massive, efficient OS migrations of existing workstations and can assist your business leverage your network dollars by performing the migration to Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology simultaneously.

Update Management Automation
Progent's network management experts can help you set up an information system built around Microsoft Windows 7 workstations that is easy to administer. Progent's engineers have extensive backgrounds delivering small companies Systems Management Server 2003 expertise to reduce IT management's workload, improve network protection, boost efficiency by ensuring that all patches and updates are installed, enforce software licensing adherence, and monitor characteristics of software use to allow smarter purchasing plan. Also, Progent can help you to execute a non-disruptive migration to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager from SMS Server for better management automation and can assist you to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

Security Inventory and Assessment Packages
Progent's premier security consultants can provide a selection of budget-friendly security inventory service packages and network security evaluation service packages designed to give businesses of all sizes a chance to receive an impartial look at the strength of their protection environment. The packages vary from an ultra-affordable external scan and assessment package for small and midsize companies up to a high-end package for institutions who have to meet security standards demanded by state regulators or by customers. For every security assessment bundle, engineers with high-level security accreditations evaluate and report on collected data and provide suggestions for effective improvements.

High-availability System Design
Progent's consulting experts can assist you to configure a fault-tolerant system infrastructure with features such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V clustering, redundant Internet connections, system load balancing, and dispersed colocation sites. Progent offers access to Microsoft and Cisco-Premier consulting professionals who can show you how to utilize virtual machines to enhance availability. Progent can also help define a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates scheduled disaster recovery evaluations and drills.

Help Desk Outsourcing and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Certified Partner and Progent's remote Help Desk services staff of trained technical experts gives your clients convenient access to a reliable support group with extensive experience delivering telephone support and online troubleshooting for networks powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's concentration is on earning the Helpdesk a positive image as a solid contributor to company performance. Progent's target is to fix and not merely record problems. Progent offers full Help Desk support or transparently reinforce your current Helpdesk. Progent can also assist you to select and implement the latest technology for building or enhancing your internal Help Desk.

To learn additional details concerning Progent's consulting and support services for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.