Enabling Dynamic IT: The Optimized Desktop for Windows

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• The Road to Desktop Optimization (2.58 MB PDF)

  Discover five best practices for optimizing your desktop infrastructure.

• The Business Value of Windows Vista: Five Reasons to Deploy Now (661 KB PDF)

  Learn how companies already using Windows Vista have identified tangible cost savings in IT labor and measurable improvements in user production—while reducing risk.

• Microsoft to Expand Investment in Desktop Virtualization with Acquisition of Kidaro

  On March 12, 2008, Microsoft announced the intended acquisition of Kidaro, a leading provider of desktop virtualization solutions for businesses. In combining Kidaro's virtualization technology with its suite of desktop management tools, known as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance, Microsoft will enable IT professionals to optimize their desktop infrastructure by providing management capabilities for Virtual PCs, streamlining deployments, and easing application compatibility issues.

• Virtualization Day: Microsoft Outlines Its Virtualization Strategy.

  Microsoft outlines a company-wide vision for how virtualization can be the foundation for a more dynamic IT infrastructure. The vision is designed around a portfolio of comprehensive and flexible desktop and server virtualization solutions, all managed by an integrated systems management platform, and supported by a range of best-of-breed products, partnerships, and initiatives.

• DVD Playback Pack for Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Vista Business released.

• Learn about Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack upcoming releases.

Enterprise-class Windows A key component of the Optimized Desktop, Windows Vista Enterprise is the premium business operating system for organizations with multiple PC environments such as mobile workers, office workers, and contract workers. Data protection with Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption See more features See demos and videos Find case studies Find data sheets and white papers

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• Windows Vista Service Pack 1 released

Dynamic desktop management technologies Management tools such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) enhance the manageability of Windows, streamline your business, and drives down desktop total cost of ownership (TCO). Transform applications into dynamically delivered services with Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization) Recover desktops quickly with Diagnostics and Recover Toolset See all five components and read about their features See demos and videos Find case studies Find data sheets and white papers

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• Microsoft to Expand Investment in Desktop Virtualization with Acquisition of Kidaro

Virtualization as a key enabler For customers exploring various deployment models, the Optimized Desktop for Windows provides unique licensing and virtualization technologies. See the Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) demo Learn about Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop Learn about Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization) in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Find out more about Microsoft Virtual PC Learn more about licensing and virtualization technologies See the Application Virtualization demo See demos and videos Find case studies Find data sheets and white papers

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• Microsoft to Expand Investment in Desktop Virtualization with Acquisition of Kidaro

• SoftGrid Application Virtualization 4.5