Session 3 – Windows 7

NameTitleCityMVP – Product Areahttp://blogaddress

Consistency throughout lifecycle from planning to release

Focus on customer feedback & research

Windows Has Changed

Quality over timelineTimeline over features

Targeted marketing to customers

Windows 7 memory consumption is independent of number of open windows

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Windows Vista Windows 7 Pre Beta

Preliminary data gathered onWindows 7 pre-release builds

Works The Way You Want

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Windows Vista SP1 Windows 7 Pre-BetaPreliminary data gathered on Windows 7 pre-release builds on sample of test systems.

Works The Way You Want

Fewer problems & easier problem resolution

Self diagnoses & lets you solve problems at your own convenience

Largest automatic feedback tool ensures quicker fixes & continuous improvement

Works The Way You WantMore Reliable

“I need my PC to work all the time.”

Enterprise Search Make Users Productive Anywhere

Situation Today Windows 7 Solution

Consistent user experience for finding data from multiple locations, including SharePointIT can pre-populate links on Start menu and Explorer to preferred sites with “Enterprise Search Scopes”

Search Federation (Windows 7 Enterprise)

Current desktop and Enterprise search solutions are good, but not integratedUsers need to take different steps to find data on PC and data on serversData sources are hard to discover

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Remote Access for Mobile Workers Make Users Productive Anywhere

Situation Today Windows 7 Solution

New network paradigm enables same experience inside & outside the officeSeamless access to network resources increases productivity of mobile usersInfrastructure investments also make it easy to service mobile PCs and distribute updates and polices

Difficult for users to access corporate resources from outside the officeChallenging for IT to manage, update, patch mobile PCs while disconnected from company network

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Branch Office Network Performance Make Users Productive Anywhere

Caches content downloaded from file and Web serversUsers in the branch can quickly open files stored in the cacheFrees up network bandwidth for other uses

BranchCache™ (Windows 7 Enterprise)

Application and data access over WAN is slow in branch officesSlow connections hurt user productivity Improving network performance is expensive and difficult to implement

Situation Today Windows 7 Solution

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Windows Touch & improved handwriting recognition provide new & more direct ways of interacting with your PC.

New Things PossibleChoice In How You Interact With Your PC

“Simply touching the screen is a more intuitive and direct way to work with my PC”

Note: Touch capability is dependenton PC hardware capability

Play your content  easily on your networked devices around the home.  Access your media library from any PC in the home.

“My music, photos and video are scattered across multiple PCs. Its hard to access it from my other PCs, my stereo and gadgets at home and when I’m away.”

New Things PossibleEasier To Enjoy Your Photos, Music & Videos Almost Anywhere

Easily add new capabilities to your PC by upgrading Windows 7 to another edition

Upgrade in less than 10 minutes with all your settings, applications & files unchanged

New Things PossibleWindows Anytime Upgrade

“I’d like new capabilities on my PC, but upgrades are too time consuming and complex”

We listened, acted & solved real needs

Delivering the best Windows PC experience

Keeping Out Promise To Customers

Security

Hardware CompatibleApplication Compatible

Solid Performance

Adoption

Lowest Mobile TCO

Energy Efficient

• Less than half the vulnerability of Windows XP

• Over 77,000 devices & components supported (57K since RTM)

• 99% of top selling consumer applications are compatible

• Tests show performance parity between Windows Vista SP1 and XPSP2

• On pace to deploy faster than Windows XP

• Reports show $251 per mobile PC per year in cost savings

• Every 10 PCs migrated to Vista = 1 car off the road

Windows 7 Migration

• Windows Vista deployment eases future migration to Windows 7

Windows Vista: Reality versus Perception

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