Let's face it: the way that people work and interact today has fundamentally changed.
The Microsoft Optimized Desktop at the core is about the application of technologies like Windows 7 and best practices applied to specific worker scenarios within your enterprise that result in a better-run IT organization. It resolves the natural tension between IT goals such as more control, more efficient management, and better security; and worker goals such as more flexibility and speed to do their jobs well.
Webcasts
Windows 7 Early Adopter Panel at the Gartner Symposium
Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 is one of industry's largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders.
At the event, featured Gartner Research VP & Distinguished Analyst Michael Silver facilitated a panel around Windows 7 planning, deployment and customer experience with Windows 7 Early Adopter Customers. Mr. Silver was accompanied by four Windows 7 Early Adopter Customers: ADP, BMW, Energizer and Pella.
The panel discusses topics of importance for enterprises considering the move to Windows 7. View this webcast to get valuable insider information from Microsoft Customer industry leads.
The New Efficiency Is Ready
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See how innovations in Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 R2, Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft Forefront™ offer familiar, integrated solutions that help you meet cost, innovation and productivity challenges head on. Start at www.thenewefficiency.com for strategic and technical information you can use.
Windows 7 Webcast Series
There's a lot of buzz about Windows 7 out there. Each month in our webcast series, listen to analysts and customers discuss how Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Desktop is impacting large companies around the world. Learn how they evaluated Windows 7, including the cost of deployment, deployment strategies, and tangible benefits. Listen to on-demand recordings or register for an upcoming event.
White Papers
Cost Savings with the Microsoft Windows Optimized Desktop
Imagine an IT environment that maintains uptime for employees, that deploys updates on schedule and without issue, where security threats are kept at bay, and all licenses and regulatory mandates are more easily tracked. These are hallmark traits of a Windows Optimized Desktop. By streamlining IT management and increasing employee productivity, the Windows Optimized Desktop can help you gain short-term and long-term cost savings.
The Road to a More Dynamic IT Organization
The key to success in achieving an Optimized Desktop is a roadmap that defines the path towards a mature IT infrastructure, where enterprises move gradually toward turning their IT investments into strategic assets for the business. In a recent analyst report, IDC concluded that significant cost savings can be realized through the Windows Optimized Desktop, and those savings are accompanied by both lower staffing costs and improved agility.
eBook
eBook: How Can You Make Your People Productive Anywhere?
End users want mobility, flexibility and ease of use from their PC technology. IT executives want to preserve the security and control while reducing costs. In this eBook, you'll learn how the Windows Optimized Desktop solution reconciles those goals.
Video
Customers Talk about Windows 7
Hear from other CIOs like Eric Craig, Managing Director of Technology at Continental Airlines, that are already running Windows 7 and reaping the benefits of increased performance and security. You may want to reduce IT costs, but not at the expense of putting your corporate data at risk. With the Windows Optimized Desktop, you don't have to compromise.
Customer Stories
Windows 7 is what a modern managed desktop should be. It helps us increase productivity, reduce costs, and provide enhanced desktop security. 
- Doug Miller, Practice Architect, CDW case study
With faster migration of user data and settings, we expect to save 30 minutes per desktop in deployment time [of Windows 7]. This adds up to 2,500 hours based on deploying 5,000 workspaces annually.
- Kris Bries, Infrastructure Manager, Getronics case study
Our IT staff used to spend 50 percent of its time monitoring and removing unauthorized software from computers. Windows 7 eliminates this work. [They] can now spend more time creating new solutions.
- David Feng, Technical Director, SYSTEX case study