Windows Vista Business Case

Find and Use Information

Increasing user productivity by making it easier to find and use information.

• Built-in diagnostics, SuperFetch and ReadyBoost capabilities for a more reliable, high performing and responsive PC and higher user productivity.
• Powerful, integrated search capabilities that save users time by helping them find just about anything on their PCs quickly.
• New user interface (Windows Aero) that provides better stability, improved user experience, richer visualization and easier navigation.

Enable Mobile Workforce

Enabling a better connected, more collaborative and more secure mobile workforce.

• Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption that protects data if laptop is lost or stolen.
• More secure wireless connections that protects mobile users on the go.
• Windows Meeting Space for peer-to-peer ad-hoc meetings.

Improve Security and Compliance

Helping protect your data, secure your environment, and make it easier to achieve compliance with regulations and policies.

• User Account Control that reduces the attack surface area while minimizing disruptions to user productivity.
• Enhanced online security with Windows Vista browser protected mode and anti-phishing that help protect user identity and data.
• Granular event logging, auditing and tracking to enable compliance.

Optimize Desktop Infrastructure

Reducing cost and complexity of deploying, managing, and supporting your company PCs.

• New imaging format that allows for hardware and language independence to reduce number of desktop images needed when deploying to corporate PCs with a variety of hardware and language settings.
• Advance Group Policies to better manage critical usage scenarios and corporate PCs.
• Self-healing and better supportability to reduce helpdesk calls.