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Tools and services from Dell and Microsoft can smooth the path to Windows Vista

Windows Vista promises IT organizations much more than a new, three-dimensional look for their computer desktops. Security features designed to protect valuable corporate information include hard drive encryption, user account control and a new security center. Productivity features include search tools that help users find information on their own systems, the Internet or their coworkers’ PCs. File sharing and Meeting Space tools enable close collaboration with peers.

All of these features build a compelling case for a migration to Windows Vista. Many customers are already planning their move, whether on new systems or as an upgrade for existing PCs. Market research firm IDC projects that 90 million copies of Windows Vista will be deployed in 2007—31.5 million of them in businesses.

Perhaps most important of all improvements in the eyes of IT professionals are the steps Microsoft and its partners—including Dell—have taken in automating the deployment and subsequent management of desktop systems running Windows Vista. Two of the key additions to Windows Vista are an enhanced Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) best practices methodology and solution and the new Windows Imaging technologies (WIM). Both work with the new Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE). Windows PE is a boot, recovery and diagnostic environment for Windows.....