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The Windows Vista Business operating system is designed to meet the needs of business organizations of all sizes. For small businesses, Windows Vista Business will help keep PCs running smoothly and more securely so you will be less reliant on dedicated IT support. For larger organizations, Windows Vista Business provides dramatic new infrastructure improvements, enabling your IT staff to spend less time focused on the day-to-day maintenance of PCs and more time adding strategic value to your organization. Windows Vista Business also offers powerful new ways to organize, find, and share information while staying better connected whether you are in the office or on the road. This helps your business to run more efficiently than ever before.

And, for growing businesses, the mobile computing enhancements make it easy to stay connected, both in and out of the office. Windows Vista Business can help you spend less time on technology support-related issues - so you can spend more time making your business successful. Windows Vista Business simply makes it easy to manage how your employees connect to your network and to ensure that they get more out of their PCs, both in and out of the office. Be future-ready and lay the IT foundation that your business needs for today and tomorrow.

For small businesses, Windows Vista Business includes new technology and tools to ensure your PCs are always up-to-date, more secure, and running smoothly. For instance, Windows Vista Business will make your PCs safer with built-in protection against malicious software, or malware. You will be warned of impending hardware failures long before you risk losing any important business data. An array of sophisticated new backup technologies helps protect your information even in the event of a catastrophic hardware failure.

For larger organizations, Windows Vista Business has been designed from the ground up to improve the deployment and management of the operating system. For instance, image-based installation is now the default method for installing the Windows Vista operating system, and the images are no longer hardware-dependent. These two key design principles enable your organization to dramatically reduce the number of images you are required to manage and streamline the process of deploying new PCs and updating existing PCs.

For businesses of any size, Windows Vista Business is designed to allow your IT department to configure users' systems so that they can log onto their PCs as standard users instead of as administrators. Windows Vista Business enables the use of standard user accounts without the compatibility and usability issues that could occur in previous versions of Windows. This new capability significantly reduces the likelihood of a malicious attack causing damage to your organization's PCs.

• Most secure Windows ever with Windows Defender and Windows Firewall
• Quickly find what you need with Instant Search and Windows Internet Explorer 7
• Elegant Windows Aero desktop experience with Windows Flip 3D navigation
• Best choice for laptops with enhanced Windows Mobility Center and Tablet PC support
• Collaborate and share documents with Windows Meeting Space
• Help protect against hardware failure with advanced business backup features
• Business protect your data against loss or theft with Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption

Windows Vista Business has a new user interface, named Windows Aero, which is designed to deliver new levels of efficiency for any business user. This new interface makes it easy to navigate through the operating system and from application to application. For instance, Windows Aero helps you juggle multiple tasks at once by providing a three-dimensional, real-time, animated view of all your open applications and documents.  In addition to these navigation improvements, Windows Vista Business makes it easier than ever to manage huge volumes of business documents. By integrating search throughout the operating system and providing new ways to organize files, Windows Vista Business helps you quickly find exactly what you are looking for.  For those who are not full-time IT professionals but have roles that require them to support their organizations' PCs, Windows Vista Business includes Small Business Resources. This built-in how-to guide leads you through everyday tasks and troubleshooting in easy-to-follow, non-technical language.

Windows Vista Business is designed to help you easily and quickly connect with your organization, your customers, and your partners, whether you are in the office or on the road. Windows Vista Business includes all of the essential infrastructure required to more securely connect you to your business information whether you are sitting at your desk, working at home, connected to a WiFi hotspot, or even if you are using your cell phone to connect to the Internet.

To help you be more productive when you are away from your desk, Windows Vista Business includes Tablet PC technology that lets you interact with your Tablet PC-compatible computer using a digital pen or your fingertip instead of a keyboard. The new Tablet PC features in Windows Vista Business include improved handwriting recognition and simpler ways to navigate through documents and applications without a keyboard.

Computers that include Windows Vista Business and an auxiliary Windows SlideShow display will also allow you to access critical business information even when your computer is turned off. Windows Vista Business also makes it easy for you to share documents and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and customers - even if a network is not available. Additionally, Windows Vista Business helps you get the most out of your portable PC by making it quick and easy to manage key mobility settings.

Regardless of whether your organization is big or small, Windows Vista Business will help you lower your PC management costs, improve your security, enhance your productivity, and stay better connected than ever before.


Product Highlights

Security - Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet. The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC.

Search and Organization - Windows Vista gives you more flexibility when you search and organize your files. New controls, like the Quick Search box and Enhanced Column Headers, make it simple for you to manage large amounts of on-screen data in any way that you want.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 - Windows Vista enhances the Internet Explorer experience. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7 not only adds important new security and privacy features, but makes everyday tasks easier through features such as tabbed browsing, inline search, and shrink-to-fit printing.

Sidebar and Gadgets - As you use your computer to access more information, perform more tasks, and interact with more software applications, you increasingly face information overload. You open a Web browser just to check the weather, open an application to view your calendar, and open a calculator program to simply add numbers. You need simple, specialized, and lightweight mini-applications that put information and tasks at your fingertips - no matter what you're doing.  Windows Sidebar boosts your personal productivity by providing instant access to gadgets—a wide variety of engaging, easy-to-use, and customizable mini-applications that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools.

Performance - Windows Vista is designed to help make you more productive, with new features including Sleep, SuperFetch, External Memory Drive (EMD), and Hybrid Hard Drive. SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of available RAM. EMD technology helps boost performance without adding RAM. Windows Vista also takes advantage of Hybrid Hard Drive technology to help improve battery life, performance, and reliability. With Windows

Windows Backup - Windows Vista provides valuable new innovations to help ensure you never lose information that is important to you. Windows Vista offers multiple layers of backup and restore protection from hardware failure, user error, or other issues. These innovations include system restore enhancements, a new feature called Windows Backup, and a related feature: Volume Shadow Copy, which was first introduced with the Windows Server product family and is now available for PCs.

Networking - Windows Vista includes new networking features that make your network easier to set up, easier to use, and more secure and reliable. Connect wirelessly to your company's network, share an Internet connection and printers, copy files between computers, or enjoy your favorite entertainment around your home. Whether at home, a small business, or a large enterprise, Windows Vista makes connectivity easier so you can focus on what matters to you.

Windows SlideShow - If you use a laptop computer, you know that starting up your laptop just to check a message or find an address or phone number isn't always practical.

Speech Recognition - Speech Recognition in Windows Vista empowers you to interact with your computer by voice. It allows you to significantly limit your use of mouse and keyboard while maintaining or increasing productivity. You can dictate documents and e-mail messages in mainstream applications, fill out forms on the Web using voice commands, and seamlessly manage Windows Vista and applications by saying what you see.

Help and Feedback - With a number of features to streamline problem resolution, Windows Vista is designed to provide better self-help and improve centralized tools for support professionals.

Windows Update - Windows Update helps to keep your computer up to date and more secure by providing Microsoft Windows Vista software updates. You can configure Windows Update to automatically download and install updates for you. You can essentially “set it and forget it.”  In Windows Vista, the capabilities of Windows Update are extended beyond the features available in Windows XP and make updating easier and less disruptive.

Sync Center - The new Windows Vista Sync Center gives you one place where you can manage data synchronization in several scenarios: between multiple PCs, between network servers and PCs, and with the devices you connect to your PC.

Product Features

• Business and Windows Vista - Windows Vista is designed for businesses of all sizes and across all industries. Focused on helping you achieve cost and operational efficiencies in desktop image deployment, management, and security, Windows Vista will make a difference in any business setting.  Windows Vista also helps PC users to be more effective in their work by offering improved connectivity with advanced integration across technologies, networks, and systems, as well as providing them with quick access to better organized information.
   
• Small Business - Windows Vista is the operating system that helps you keep your PCs running smoothly and securely, even without dedicated IT staff. Windows Vista provides powerful new ways to find and use your information and an improved ability to connect integrated technologies, networks, systems, and people - so you can focus on running your business.
   
• Security - Security is fundamental to the Windows Vista architecture. You can achieve your business and computing goals with confidence, knowing that Windows Vista provides more protection against the latest generation of security threats and provides efficient centralized management of security features. With built-in system integrity assurance, Windows Vista helps prevent your data from being compromised by malware and spoofing. Windows Vista also enables you to protect the data on your company's PCs from unauthorized access should they be lost or stolen.
   
• Mobile PCs - Windows Vista makes it easier to use computers and networks while you're on the go. Connecting your computer to a variety of hardware and networks is faster, easier, and more secure than before, and synchronizing data between computers and devices is simple. Windows Vista incorporates many new features that are made specifically for the mobile user.
   
• Sharing - In Windows Vista, sharing information between users is finally made easier. Windows Vista helps you to more easily share files, folders, and computers on the same network the way that you want to.
   
• Faxing and Scanning - Faxing and scanning functions come together in Windows Vista through Windows Fax and Scan. Sending and receiving faxes through your PC is now as simple as performing the same tasks on a fax machine, especially for digital documents.
   
• Built-in Diagnostics - Windows Vista includes new and enhanced functionality that can help you resolve many common problems - often before a failure or data loss occurs. If there is a hard disk or system failure, the new Built-in Diagnostics feature provides easy-to-use backup and restore techniques to get you up and running again.
   

Windows Requirements

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• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 GB of system memory
• 40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:
  • WDDM Driver
  • 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
  • Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware
  • 32 bits per pixelAudio Output
• DVD-ROM Drive
• Internet access (fees may apply)
• Actual requirements and product functionality may vary based on your system configuration.

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is designed to help Windows XP users identify whether their PCs are ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista, which edition of Windows Vista meets their needs, and which features of Windows Vista will be able to run on their PCs.  For assistance, please use the link provided:  http://tinyurl/ysvhs7

 

For users running Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, or Windows Vista only.  Backup and clean install may be required.

Please Note: Due to the "Special Packaging" on this item, it can not be returned once it has been opened.