Customer Guide to Limited-Time Offer February 15, 2007 Upgrade, Optimize & Save Customer Guide to Limited-Time Offer John Smith This is my title

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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.

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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.

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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

Upgrade, Optimize & Save 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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