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BETA: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) v1 beta

Microsoft® Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V, formerly known as Kidaro) enhances deployment, management and user experience for Virtual PC images on a Windows® Desktop, independent of the local desktop configuration and operating system (OS). MED-V leverages Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to provide an enterprise solution for desktop virtualization streamlining OS upgrades, and increasing IT control and user flexibility in enterprise environments.

MED-V solution for Application-to-OS incompatibility accelerates the upgrade path to Windows Vista®. Applications that cannot be installed on Windows Vista® or have not been fully tested on Windows Vista® may be installed by the administrator in a virtual machine that runs a previous version of the OS (e.g., Windows XP or Windows 2000) and operate in their native, supported environment.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization is an integral tool in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, a dynamic solution available to Software Assurance customers that helps reduce application deployment costs, enable delivery of applications as services, and better manage and control enterprise desktop environments.

MED-V beta release will become available early 2009.  Please fill in the nomination survey to qualify for participation in the beta.

• DATASHEET:
  http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/B/7/FB7822F4-9480-4AEF-9C18-EE4433F1366A/MDOP_Datasheet_MEDV_Enterprise_FINAL.pdf
• BETA REGISTRATION:
  https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=665

Note:  MED-V usage requires subscription licensing of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) For more details about how to license MDOP please refer to:

• http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/PUR.aspx

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