Windows 7: Enterprise features explained

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

The lion’s share of attention about the Windows 7 beta has been on consumer features. The new taskbar with its jumplists, mouse-hover features, easy navigation and the more controllable user account control are the immediate attention-grabbers. But the under-the-hood, less “sexy” enterprise features of Windows 7 are not as well known.

Popular blogger and editor of Supersite for Windows Paul Thurrott recently said in an interview with CIO.com sister site Network World that Microsoft is treating enterprises as an afterthought and "arbitrarily locking Windows enterprise features to Windows Server 2008 R2 and asking corporations to spend a significant sum of money." Windows 7: Enterprise features explained | InfoWorld | News | 2009-02-18 | By Shane O’Neill , CIO.com