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Windows Vista Demo Readiness Toolkit for Microsoft Partners (and others!)

Do you have a product that runs on Windows Vista that you'd like to showcase to potential customers?

We now offer the Demo Readiness Toolkit (DRT) for Windows Vista, which helps you build the skills needed to effectively demo your application on Windows Vista to your customers.  The DRT is a way for you to create customized demonstrations that highlight your product and Windows Vista at the same time.  You don't need a dedicated demonstration PC to do this -- the DRT allows you to exhibit your demo on your own PC instead.

Included in the DRT are sample documents, demo files, sample applications, shortcuts and more to ensure that you have the appropriate environment to highlight your creation.  You can also build a demo script for consumer or business scenarios that, for example, underscore Windows Vista's advances in say, parental controls or network management, respectively. 

And best of all, it's free.  Nor do you even have to be a Microsoft Partner to access and use these tools.

Using the DRT is a process that works; I know, because we have an internal version of the DRT that is available to anyone working at MS who wants to give a demonstration of Windows Vista, and I've used our internal version myself, many times.

Once you've created your own DRT, you can enter it into the DRT Challenge for the chance to win prizes like a Zune or a trip to this year's Worldwide Partner Conference.  Check out this video to learn how to get started.


Comments

  1. Posted on: February 17, 2007 at 1:57AM  

    Hey Nick,

    Nice to see your comments.

    Do you or anyone at Microsoft know why Volt is withholding the Vista Launch Packs from the agents in Toronto??

    Jerry Maguire

  2. Posted on: February 17, 2007 at 3:13AM  

    The DRT sounds like a useful kit, just a pitty its not a download, as that would encourage greater uptake.  The video on soapbox is pretty informative though, at least I can watch that without signing in.

    Jerry

    Who is Volt?  Sounds like an elite security team armed with tazers!

    What are the Vista Launch Packs?

  3. Posted on: February 17, 2007 at 3:25AM  

    Actually you can download some files here

    http://microsoft.mrmpslc.com/windowsvistapartner/YourDRT.aspx

    However the full Windows Vista Partner Demo Readiness Toolkit you have to order a disc of right?

  4. Posted on: February 18, 2007 at 12:13PM  

    Volt is a Microsoft partner, (aka VMC).

    They don't arm the agents with tazers.

    VMC management mentioned Microsoft had some launch bonus packs for the agents for the launch of Vista and the agents that support Vista.

    No jet packs have arrived.

  5. Posted on: February 18, 2007 at 1:08PM  

    I bought new HPs for our company with Vista loaded.  Now we can't print.  BIG show stopper.  Who is going to fix this?  New software package that isn't compatible with any common program?  even your own?  wow.  Isn't that your catch phrase?  wow?  Very disapointing, how are you going to fix it?

  6. Posted on: February 18, 2007 at 2:42PM  

    Thanks for the clarification Jerry.

  7. Posted on: February 18, 2007 at 7:42PM  

    Hey Brian Jones:  I hear you -- it sounds like a driver issue for your specific printer, the fix for which will probably first appear on the manufacturer's web site, and then possibly on Windows Update (if they make it available to us).  So, check with HP to see if there's a driver update and if not yet, then there should be one in the future.

  8. Posted on: February 18, 2007 at 7:49PM  

    Hey jerry maguire:  I'm afraid that's not something I have insight into.

  9. Posted on: February 18, 2007 at 10:51PM  

    Hey newscientist2000:  That URL allows you to order a DVD from which you can download simulated end-user content and scripts, which then can be loaded on PCs for demos.  Essentially, it's the same content that you'd download in the ZIP file directly.

  10. Posted on: February 21, 2007 at 8:32PM  

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