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| Time: 15:10 EST/20:10 GMT | News Source: Microsoft | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Windows Vista Enterprise was designed to help global organizations and enterprises with complex IT infrastructures lower IT costs, reduce risk and stay connected. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance extends this value even further by reducing application deployment costs, enabling delivery of applications as services and allowing for better management and control of enterprise desktop environments. Together these technologies deliver the most cost-effective and flexible Windows desktop management solution. The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (1.32 MB .pdf file) is a dynamic desktop solution available to Software Assurance customers, that employs innovative technologies to help reduce the TCO of the Windows desktop by accelerating OS and application management, and enhancing IT responsiveness and end-user uptime. Using the solution's virtualization, dynamic streaming and desktop manageability technologies, customers will:
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance can transform the way you manage your desktops. It will enable you to better control the desktop, accelerate and simplify desktop deployments and management, and create a dynamic infrastructure by turning software into centrally managed services. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 10/17/2006 3:54:29 PM |
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I've never read so much that told me so lilttle.
Did the EULA team write this? LOL TL |
| #2 By 8556 (12.217.111.92) at 10/17/2006 4:04:10 PM |
| I can hardly wait to see the real life results of this optimization pack's "further reduce the total cost of ownership of the Windows desktop" (Vista). Show me the money! |
| #3 By 2459 (69.22.124.202) at 10/17/2006 4:57:08 PM |
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More succinct info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/oct06/10-17Desktop.mspx Some key features: • Microsoft SoftGrid “virtualizes” applications, meaning they can run on multiple PCs and other licensed desktops running Microsoft Windows without being locally installed. Instead, they run as individual networked services, enabling central deployment and management, minimizing compatibility problems and providing employees more ways to access applications. • Microsoft Asset Inventory Services is designed to analyze all programs on employee PCs, and provide the most current, accurate inventory. • Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management increases control over Group Policy Objects (GPOs) – the component rules within Windows’ administrative management system – and is intended to allow IT administrators to delegate or assign administrative control of specific tasks based on employees’ titles or roles. • Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset makes it possible for the IT department to quickly pinpoint the causes of PC troubles, recover lost data and prevent future downtime with post-crash analysis. |
| #4 By 32132 (142.32.230.248) at 10/17/2006 5:05:40 PM |
| If Softgrid works as promised, this is death for Linux on the desktop in business. This will make it sooooo much easier to maintain a large enterprise with Windows desktops. |
| #5 By 931 (24.98.162.197) at 10/18/2006 1:48:01 AM |
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"Beginning in January 2007, Microsoft plans to offer the optimization pack worldwide as an add-on subscription for companies with Software Assurance agreements. Customers with Open Value, Select, Enterprise Agreement (EA), EA Subscription and Campus and School agreements can subscribe through volume licensing, for an estimated retail price of US$10 a year per desktop.
“Our goal with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is to put companies back in control of their IT systems,”" ---- You have got to be kidding me. Now they want to charge me another 10$ a system per year for something that should have been solved by and included in the product to begin with? Only Microsoft - You would think this would at least be thrown in as a benifit to those SA customers, since many of those contracts are coming up and few organizations have gotten everything promised during their contracts, unless that's what they meant by add-on, but add-on to me says adding $$, else why not say added benifit. "ARMC has taken back control of its applications with the virtualization technology in SoftGrid, which Microsoft acquired with the purchase of Softricity in July." http://www.softricity.com/products/index.asp http://www.softricity.com/products/whatsnew.asp#virtualization http://www.softricity.com/products/howitworks.asp Very interesting product, what ever MS bought them for it was cheap. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/optimizeddesktop.mspx Could be a huge advantage if works as advertised. It actually looks like the technology the longhorn server TS people showed off on Channel9 |
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