Windows 7 – Top 10 reasons to deploy

Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10:12 am by Jason Cartwright |

About 4 people raised their hand for having deployed Windows Vista in their organisation.

Enthusiastically, a large number of attendees raised their hands to the question ‘how many of you are currently doing test deployment / trials.’

10. Deployment

• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (has now gone RTM).
• Imaging
• Driver Injection
• Device Drivers inbuilt
• Install from USB
• WAIK

Basically need 2 imagines when deploying.. 32-bit or 64-bit.

http://microsoft.com/deployment

9. Remote Working

• Direct Access
• Multiple Default Printers (Location aware printing – useful for multiple sites, can be set through Group Policy Preferences)

8. Branch

• Branch Cache
• SMB 2

7. UI

• Libraries
• Search Scopes
• Jump Lists
• Aero Shake
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Multitouch

Flickr federated search example code from istartedsomething.com

6. Management

• Diagnostic
• PSR
• Power Management
• WMI
• Powershell
• Group Policy (an additional 500)

5. Networking

• Wireless
• Mobility Center
• Broadband support
• Active Firewall policies

4. Virtualisation

• VDI enhancements
• XP Mode
• MED-V
• Boot VHD
• RDS

Tip: If an application crashes when trying launch in Windows 7, try starting it 4 times within an hour, some automatic application compatibility code will be kicked off and your app may indeed launch.

3. Security

• AppLocker
• Bitlocker
• Bitlocker To Go
• UAC enhancements

2. Web

• IE8

1. Performance

• Machine spec
• Battery life (attendees in the crowd, say they’ve got between 2 and 3.5hrs of battery life from their netbook).