Windows Vista is “giant leap” in enterprise space
Speaking at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, Jim Allchin, Group Vice President of Platforms at Microsoft, said that, “most of the work that is going to be applicable to the IT professional community will be in terms of our improvements of the basics ~ just engineering excellence and attempting to save money for them.”
I don’t remember a release in the last 10 years other than Windows 95 that had something for all the audiences in it. Each of ‘em had specific advantages. This one is sort of across the board. When you talk about enterprises, I view enterprises in terms of two buckets. One is helping the IT professional, making their jobs easier and saving money, preventing them from having to worry about more patches and making the performance of what they already have better, reducing the complexity of the images that they’re managing and on and on.
The flip side of that is for the knowledge worker and thinking about where there’s a basic set of capabilities we’re going to put in the system that might help them, some simple experiences like Windows collaboration. But more importantly, do we have the right platform for things like Office to add new productivity that they’re interested in and to make sure that the two together shine? If you have a corporation thinking about a redeployment and sees great value in things like Office, we think the combination of Office and Vista together for a deployment might make great sense for a knowledge worker. Both are independent, but in terms of an actual deployment, it might be simpler to roll it together in terms of the deployment.
[Via Computerworld]
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