Top 10 Reasons to Buy Microsoft Desktop

Microsoft® Desktop Virtualization offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to address today’s business challenges; enabling organizations to provide their employees the flexibility to work everywhere on a range of devices, while simplifying compliance and business continuity through a centralized and unified management infrastructure.

1. Breadth and Depth of Experience 6. Saves Time For more than 20 years, Microsoft has been delivering a Microsoft reduces sequencing time for large applications broad range of desktop virtualization solutions to fit your from hours to minutes with App-V Package Accelerators, business needs by addressing each layer of technology, allowing you to convert applications directly from ISV including user state, applications, operating system, installation media to App-V packages. and end-to-end management. 7. Speeds Windows 7 Migration

2. Rich User Experience Microsoft removes barriers to Windows® 7 migration Microsoft provides a rich and full fidelity remote desktop by resolving application incompatibility with Microsoft experience to your knowledge workers on a range of Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), which provides client devices, by leveraging the power of virtualized users with seamless access to Windows XP-based graphics resources with Remote FX in Windows applications on the new operating system. Server® 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1. 8. Simplified Management 3. Best Value Microsoft provides a single, centralized platform to manage Microsoft improves density by up to 40%* both your physical and virtual assets—from hardware to for your server-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications, data, and the operating system—in the desktops with Dynamic Memory in Windows Server or on premise with Microsoft System Center. 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1. 9. User Centric 4. Scalable Solution With the user centric management capabilities of System Microsoft offers a highly scalable, lower cost session-based Center 2012***, Microsoft Desktop Virtualization automatically desktop solution with Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote detects device configurations and network conditions to Desktop Services (RDS), allowing for much higher user deliver the most appropriate services to each user. density compared to VDI. 10. End-to-End Platform 5. Lowers Costs Microsoft provides cost-effective desktop virtualization Microsoft is the leader in application virtualization with best technologies out of the with Windows client operating in class packaging and isolation with Microsoft Application system (Folder Redirection, Offline Files, Roaming User Virtualization (App-V), providing an average reduction in Profiles), Windows Server (VDI, RDS), and Microsoft Desktop total cost of ownership up to $82/seat/year**. Optimization Pack (App-V, Med-V) for Software Assurance.

* Based on Windows Server Lab Tests conducted by Microsoft. ** Savings may vary per organization; results are based on respondents’ answers and applied to the To learn more about Microsoft Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft App-V TCO study. Please find the whitepaper at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9722838. please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/dv. *** http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter