Added Value of Windows Vista
It’s an interesting fact that many businesses using Windows XP in their systems have yet to upgrade to System Pack 2. The reason given is usually that it would cause too much disruption and increase the workload and overhead. Microsoft has clearly taken note of this for the launch of Vista. They are currently pushing the line that corporate implementation will be so much easier and cheaper this time round.
In this and the next two posts we’ll look at Microsoft’s arguments for this line.
Corporations should carefully consider ROI (return on investment) when putting in new systems, they say. But what if this is hard to quantify? How can an IT manager justify a new product if there’s no bottom line to put to the finance department and the board? Microsoft’s answer is that Windows Vista will incorporate improved user productivity and reduced IT management costs. As they put it : “It might surprise you … to learn how much lower the deployment costs will be than they were when you deployed previous client operating systems.”
Microsoft’s confidence stems from new implementation and productivity tools installed as part of the package. Until now the IT department had to engineer the client platform to meet security requirements, ensure compatibility with applications, and then deploy the new operating system on the client computers.
Says Microsoft : “With Windows Vista, each of these steps has been simplified to minimize deployment costs:
1. Engineering the client platform. With Windows Vista, platform image engineering is much easier than with Microsoft Windows XP, because Windows Vista uses new imaging technologies and tools to engineer and customize the image. This makes deployment easier, because you don’t have to spend as much time engineering the platform to meet your unique requirements.
2. Ensuring application compatibility. Windows Vista supports the majority of applications that run on Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows. In fact, you can run most of those applications with standard user privileges, even if the application required administrator privileges on Windows XP.
3. Deployment method. With Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, most enterprises purchased third-party imaging products to deploy the operating system. Imaging (deploying an entire operating system as a single file) is built into Windows Vista, so you can achieve the same results with out-of-box technologies.”
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