14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is doing a great job at supplying resources designed to permit insights into the next iteration of Windows. The latest content offered by the Redmond company involves a couple of eLearning Clinics on Windows 7, offered for free, just as the Win7 Snacks. Both Clinic 10077: What's New in Windows 7 for IT Professionals and Clinic 10088: What's New in Windows 7 for Information Workers are focused on providing an introduction to the successor of Windows Vista for the respective user segments. Information workers and IT professionals have a chance to see how Windows 7 tailors to their respective needs.
The “two-hour [Clinic 10088] provides you with an overview of key enhancements in Windows 7, which help information workers to improve their productivity as well as work in a more secure environment. This clinic covers the following topics: be More Productive with Windows 7; be More Secure with Windows 7; and get Connected Faster and Easier with Windows 7. Information workers completing this clinic should have experience working with previous versions of Windows,” Microsoft advised.
Microsoft started offering the Release Candidate of Windows 7 on May 5th 2009. The bits are available for public download, and access to the development milestone is of course free. Both information workers and IT professionals can download, install and test drive the next version of Windows. The two clinics will, in this respect, manage to catalyze a stronger focus on a variety of Windows 7 aspects designed to address IW and IE pros specific scenarios.
The Clinic 10077 “provides you with an overview of the new and enhanced deployment, security, manageability, and performance features in Windows 7. It describes how these features meet the day-to-day needs of IT professionals. This clinic covers the following topics: overview of Deployment Enhancements; overview of Security Enhancements; overview of Manageability and Performance Enhancements. IT professionals completing this clinic should have basic familiarity with deploying, managing, and maintaining Windows Vista or the Windows XP operating system.”
But just because Microsoft is nominating the audiences of the resources does not mean that the clinics are not open to all potential Windows 7 users.
32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 (Release Candidate) RC Build 7100.0.090421-1700 is available for download here.