Microsoft Windows 7 Expertise During a presentation at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta availability of Windows 7. The new version of Windows was made available temporarily for testing at several Microsoft sites. During the CES talk, Balmer demonstrated new capabilities and key enhancements built into Windows and driven by market demands. Aspects focused on by Windows 7, stated Balmer, include speed, security, reliability, compatibility, extended battery life, and simplicity. In each of these categories, Windows 7 offers dramatic advantages.

Windows 7 features quicker initialization, power off, and wakeup from standby; no-hassle LAN configuration and resource access; centralized peripherals administration; plus multiple finger touch-screen technology. To view Microsoft's press release, visit Microsoft Previews Windows 7

Notice: End of Support for Windows 7
Microsoft has put 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 distributes software or security updates. Although devices running Windows 7 still operate, End of Support can bring about a growing array of problems associated with cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, operation with new releases of applications, and possibly even liability. If your company is currently considering a migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or Windows 11, Progent's Windows 10 and Windows 11 consultants can assist you to understand the possible advantages of a modern version of Windows for your business and can help you to design and execute an efficient transition to Windows 10 or Windows 11 that follows leading practices.

How Progent's Certified Experts Can Assist Your Company to Maintain Windows 7
Progent's certified consultants can assist you to manage your Windows 7 environment and can also show you how to evaluate the likely business benefits of moving to a modern release of Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide assistance with moving to Windows 10 or migrating to Windows 11 from Windows 7 or from prior releases of Windows.

Progent's consulting experts offer a range of other affordable support options to enhance the efficiency, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability of IT systems that include desktops based on Windows 7:

Desktop Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified desktop support experts can deliver a broad range of cost-effective consulting and support services to help your business to deploy, configure, repair, and administer desktop PCs and laptops based on Microsoft Windows. Progent can provide on-premises or remote help for individual computers or laptops or help you to plan and carry out a company-wide migration to Microsoft Windows 7. Progent can also configure Office or Microsoft Dynamics business applications on your client PCs so they integrate efficiently with other Microsoft programs, products from third-party vendors, database servers, and key solutions throughout your network. Progent can also supply consultants and technical workers to help you to prepare for and implement an office relocation or consolidation designed to produce the least possible interruption to your productivity.

Live Virtual Training for Desktop Programs
Progent offers live virtual education for an array of client programs and environments including Office Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Acrobat Writer, Photoshop CS, Crystal Reports, and Microsoft Windows XP and Vista. Live online training offers the benefits of conventional in-person seminars, such as immediate interaction between clients and trainers, but avoids the expenses of travel and the challenge of attempting to accommodate the schedules of multiple students. Offered to individuals or groups of any size, live online instruction permits the teacher to conduct the seminar from an online facility while the students can be dispersed throughout an office or across the the U.S. Live online instruction utilizes powerful learning tools such as virtual white boards, real-time questions, and shared desktops. Sessions can be brief and targeted for specific subjects or longer in time and wider in coverage. Instructors and students can go through problems individually or as a group.

64-bit Migration Support for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Servers
Microsoft Windows 7 is offered in a 64-bit edition that represents a new benchmark for workstation reliability and performance. Unfortunately, for the majority of organizations the upgrade to 64-bit technology is challenging because of the requirement to make a clean setup on every PC. This entails re-installing programs, backing up and recovering data files, and running new device drivers. Though companies usually are already using 64-bit computers, the work needed to benefit fully from this untapped potential can seem excessively time-consuming. Yet because Microsoft Windows 7 usually calls for a from-scratch installation, this can be a great opportunity to move up to 64-bit computing, which takes little incremental effort. Progent's Microsoft-certified Microsoft} consultants have in-depth experience designing and implementing major, efficient operating system migrations of existing workstations and can help your organization leverage your network dollars by making the move to Windows 7 and to 64-bit technology at the same time.

Change and Update Automation
Progent's IT management experts can help you set up a computer system based around Microsoft Windows 7 workstations that is simple to manage. Progent's engineers have extensive backgrounds providing small and midsize companies SMS Server consulting to streamline IT management's workload, improve system security, improve productivity by making sure that all application updates are installed, enforce software licensing adherence, and monitor patterns of software use to enable a more efficient purchasing strategy. Also, Progent can help you to execute a smooth migration to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager from Systems Management Server 2003 for more comprehensive management automation and can help you to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages
Progent's certified security consultants can provide a variety of budget-friendly network security inventory service packages and network security assessment packages created to offer organizations of all sizes a chance to receive a professional opinion about the strength of their protection environment. These packages range from a low-cost external security scan and evaluation package for small and midsize businesses up to a high-level solution for enterprises who have to comply with security standards demanded by state agencies or by vendors. For every security inventory or evaluation package, consultants with top security accreditations evaluate and summarize scanned data and make suggestions for efficient remediation.

High-availability Network Design
Progent's consulting experts can help your company to implement a high-availability network infrastructure that offers features that can include Microsoft Windows Hyper-V failover clustering, redundant Internet connections, network load balancing, and dispersed data centers. Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft and Cisco-Premier consulting professionals who can help you utilize virtual machines to enhance availability. Progent can also show you how to develop a complete disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery evaluations and drills.

Call Center Support and Expertise
Progent is a Microsoft and Cisco Authorized Partner and Progent's online Help Desk services team of certified IT experts gives your customers convenient access to a dependable support resource with extensive experience providing phone support and online repair for networks powered by Microsoft and Cisco technology. Progent's focus is on giving the Help Desk a positive reputation as a solid contributor to company productivity. Progent's target is to resolve and not simply report problems. Progent can deliver comprehensive Helpdesk outsourcing or transparently reinforce your current Help Desk. Progent can also assist you to select and implement the most advanced technology for creating or enhancing your in-house Helpdesk.

To learn additional information concerning Progent's support services for Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008, call 1-800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.



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