1. Customer Guide to Limited-Time Offer
February 15, 2007
Upgrade, Optimize & Save
Customer Guide to Limited-Time Offer
John Smith
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Special Limited-time Offer to Help Achieve the Optimized Desktop:
Customers purchasing Windows Vista™ through an Open Value and Select License Agreement between May 1 and October 31, 2007 will save 15% off the regular price. This offer extends to customers who have purchased new PCs within the last 90 days, or who intend to purchase new PCs within the promotional period.

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What is the Optimized Desktop?
The Optimized Desktop—a combination of Windows Vista Enterprise and the Microsoft® Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance—delivers an agile, intelligently-managed, locked-down, and cost-effective desktop to the organization. The Optimized Desktop is the most cost-effective and flexible Windows® desktop management solution available today—and it’s only available through Microsoft Software Assurance.

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Windows Vista Enterprise Edition
Enhanced productivity, mobility, and security benefits with lower Total Cost of Ownership
Easier
Find and use information
More Secure
Improve security and legislative compliance
Better Connected
Enable your mobile workforce
Lower Cost
Optimize desktop infrastructure
I want to talk to you about how Windows Vista delivers value to your enterprise by addressing critical needs and can help you to achieve a People-Ready business.
First, it empowers your people by making it easy for them to find and use information. Second, it enables mobile and remote workers to stay connected and productive wherever they are. Windows Vista also addresses growing security threats and will help protect your people’s data in and out of office, secure your environment, and make it easier to achieve compliance with government regulations and internal policies. Finally, it will lower cost of deploying, managing, and supporting your corporate PCs by helping you to optimize your desktop infrastructure. With Windows Vista you get all of these productivity, mobility, and security benefits while also achieving lower Total Cost of Ownership.
End Users
IT Pros

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Increase Enterprise Desktop Manageability
Microsoft SoftGrid:
Application Virtualization
What: Advanced inventory scanning
Hosted service with efficient scanning for Microsoft and 3rd-party software resulting in intelligent reporting
Microsoft Asset Inventory Services
Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management
What: GPO versioning, change management, and delegation
Versioning, history, and rollback of GPO changes with offline editing, search, granular delegation, and change management support
Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset
What: Efficient diagnosis and recovery
Intuitive tools to recover unusable PCs, restore lost files, and identify system and network issues
Clearing Statement: This slide shows talks about Windows Vista Enterprise, on the left you can see an illustration of the four key features customers get with Vista Enterprise that they wouldn’t have with Windows Vista Business. On the right you see more details about those key features.
Key Slide Points:
Windows Vista Enterprise is only available to customers with Software Assurance
Vista Enterprise is designed to significantly lower IT costs and reduce risks associated with desktop deployment and management
Transition Statement: Now let’s take a look at the new Office 2007 System Suites 5 5

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Path to Optimized Desktop
Through Software Assurance and Open Value
Subscription Access Only Within Software Assurance (January 2007)
Available Only Within
Software Assurance (November 2006)
For All Customers (VL November 2006)
SoftGrid Application Virtualization
Asset Inventory Services
Diagnostic & Recovery Toolset
Advanced Group Policy Management
Includes all features of Windows Vista Business plus:
Four Virtual Operating Systems
Windows BitLocker™ Drive Encryption
Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI)
Subsystem for Unix-Based Apps (SUA)
Enables businesses to:
Optimized Desktop
The combination of the features in Vista and Vista Enterprise and those in the Desktop Optimization Pack stack on top of each other to optimize the desktop experience and deliver on Microsoft’s promise
To deliver the most cost effective and flexible desktop management solution
(While these technologies deliver the highest value experience when they work together, they also can work independently. Even if the customer is not yet ready to deploy Vista the Desktop Optimization Pack is still compatible with both Windows 2000 and XP.)
Find and Use Information
Enable Mobile Workforce
Improve Security and Compliance
Optimize Desktop Infrastructure

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Upgrading to a Microsoft Open Value License Agreement:
What’s in it for you? (Part 1 of 2)
The ability to run any software version
Tracking and managing licenses can be challenging, especially if people are running different versions of software. With Microsoft Open Value, you can control the upgrade cycle with the latest software releases and can run any version of Windows software.
Flexibility for business growth
As your organization grows and you need to purchase new desktops, it's easy to integrate the licenses from the new desktop computers into your existing Open Value agreement through Software Assurance.
The ability to deploy the software you need now
Open Value grants you the rights to run any version of the software so that you can stay current and upgrade when you want. With New Version Rights and flexible version management, you can focus more on implementing critical IT projects instead of on building a business case for the next upgrade.
Clearing Statement: This slide shows talks about Windows Vista Enterprise, on the left you can see an illustration of the four key features customers get with Vista Enterprise that they wouldn’t have with Windows Vista Business. On the right you see more details about those key features.
Key Slide Points:
Windows Vista Enterprise is only available to customers with Software Assurance
Vista Enterprise is designed to significantly lower IT costs and reduce risks associated with desktop deployment and management
Transition Statement: Now let’s take a look at the new Office 2007 System Suites 7 7

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Upgrading to a Microsoft Open Value License Agreement:
What’s in it for you? (Part 2 of 2)
Predictable planning and budgeting
If your organization needs longer-term visibility into IT budget planning, Open Value offers predictable annual payments to help make better decisions about which IT projects to implement each year.
Spread payments
Open Value helps organizations that have a limited budget. With Open Value, you can amortize software costs over three years, similar to financing without the interest rates and associated fees. With reduced up-front costs and payments spread over time, you can afford to get the software you need now.
Clearing Statement: This slide shows talks about Windows Vista Enterprise, on the left you can see an illustration of the four key features customers get with Vista Enterprise that they wouldn’t have with Windows Vista Business. On the right you see more details about those key features.
Key Slide Points:
Windows Vista Enterprise is only available to customers with Software Assurance
Vista Enterprise is designed to significantly lower IT costs and reduce risks associated with desktop deployment and management
Transition Statement: Now let’s take a look at the new Office 2007 System Suites 8 8

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