New Whitepaper: The Business Value of Windows Vista

This one is for all you IT professionals out there. A lot of you are probably having discussions inside your company about when to deploy Windows Vista, or you've deployed it and want to know which of the new capabilities can have the biggest impact on your business.

To help in your evaluations we've released a new white paper, The Business Value of Windows Vista: Five Reasons to Deploy Now. (Download the XPS or PDF.)  This document summarizes the top enterprise features, latest customer case studies, and research on the capabilities of Windows Vista all in one place.

What are the top 5 reasons? Here's a peek at what's inside the doc:

  • 1. Improves the Security of PCs and Confidential Data. Windows Vista Enterprise had 20% fewer security vulnerabilities than Windows XP SP2 did in 2007-and it includes BitLocker Drive Encryption to help protect your confidential data.
  • 2. Unlocks the Potential of Today's Mobile PCs. Windows Mobility Center helps users quickly access key mobility settings all in one place and research shows that Windows Vista can help customers save as much as $251 per mobile PC, per year.
  • 3. Makes You and Your People More Productive. Find the information you need on your computer and reduce time spent searching for information by up to 42%.
  • 4. Speeds ROI with Rapid Deployment and Migration. New imaging technologies and free deployment tools make the process of deploying Windows Vista easier than with any previous version.
  • 5. Reduces Support and Management Costs. The costs saving can come from multiple places including reduced help desk calls, less time spent on image maintenance, or a lower energy bill.

This document is designed for you to use and share with others in your organization that may have questions about Windows Vista. You can also find this whitepaper and others on the Windows Vista Enterprise Web site.


Comments

  1. Posted on: July 11, 2008 at 11:16AM  

    Vista does anything but 'Improve Productivity'. I mean you cannot even search for files AT ALL with any degree of confidence, let alone improve searching. And if you cannot rely on your OS to manage your files, what is the point? This is the biggest step backwards in terms of productivity I have ever seen from Microsoft, and I am usually a fan. Quoting crap like 'Find the information you need on your computer and reduce time spent searching for information by up to 42%' is bordering on the criminally misleading. If you are an IT person and intend to install this on business PCs I have one word of advice. PLEASE DONT. Stick with XP, at least until MS realise the OS is meant to do the basics well....

  2. Posted on: July 21, 2008 at 4:56PM  

    Unlocks potential?  More productive?

    May I provide the Vista Development Team with an extensive PPT for a bridge in Brooklyn that I can sell to them?

    Also, the website about compatibility...  This comes 18 months AFTER introduction.  Hello, is there any rational life in Redmond?  This should have been implemented 6 months before launch.  Who is running this company?

    Here is a suggestion: get your products fixed so they work.  Get people to buzz about them POSITIVELY before introduction.  Stop whining about all the bad publicity after the product is perceived to be a gelatinous, incoherent blob of uselessness and generally panned by consultants, users, corporations and government agencies.  Also, it might help if you could convince people like Intel to adopt....  (Wonder why?)

    In other words, stop taking your users for granted as if your monopolies grant you the right to an endless cashflow sucked from the pockets of your users.

    PS I am a 16 year user of Windows but Vista is a true piece of junk, unbelievably even worse than Windows Mobile which I thought had reached a nadir.

    Good luck, Chris.  You deserve it!

  3. Posted on: August 04, 2008 at 12:12PM  

    This site gets more and more hilarious by the day. The spin is simply out of control. I'm assuming there will be some major new announcement from Microsoft regarding Baghdad Bob joining these bulletin boards soon.

  4. Posted on: August 04, 2008 at 1:36PM  

    I read this article and I'm still not seeing any business value. Telling people "it's more secure!" is hogwash. Every new OS is going to tout that. The next item "Unlocks potential" is equally poor. Doesn't every new OS do this? We continue with "More productive!".

    So far three of the five bullet points are complete spin. When companies promote things like Security, potential, and productivity in their product marketing, that's not a good sign. Those are vague statements.

    Speeds ROI and migration? How? If, for example, I have 100 computers running XP fine with my applicaitons, how will Vista speed up my ROI and migration? Likewise, if I can slipstream in XP, how does Vista's non-slipstreaming help me migrate? I'm not so sure about this claim.

    Reduces support costs? I'm really no so sure about this claim. From what I've seen it appears to increase costs. This may not be what Microsoft sees, but out in the real world I'm going to have to call BS on this one.

  5. Posted on: September 01, 2008 at 5:12PM  

    Chris,

    I remember Apple, Ubuntu, Novell, SuSE, RedHat, BeOS and IBM using the exact same reasons to upgrade that you stated above.

    Yep, it's more secure. We figured it would be. What a statement in the obvious. What I can't figure out is the productvity claim. Could you please go into more detail how Vista enables me, for a 2000-user county, to gain more productivity out of the users that would be worth the roughly $1 Million dollar contract my current TAM is begging me to sign for our EA. Neither us, the local Microsoft SME, nor the TAM himself could come up with anything that we could not add to our current XP setup for less than $100,000.

    From the looks of it, Vista would have cost us 900 times what we really needed feature for feature comparison. Microsfot really needs to understand that we, as customers, value value. If anyone can show me the wow I keep hearing about, please let myself and the Microsoft sales team know. They are desperate at this point.

    Jeffrey Browns

    Sr. Director County Services

    Anonymous County, NJ

    USA

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  1. Posted by: SuperSite Blog on June 04, 2008 at 6:35PM

    So my talk today with Mike Nash was about the white paper mentioned in this blog post : This one is for