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1. Sell Windows XP Pre-Installed on a New PC
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional is easy to pre-install and customize. New Windows Welcome features allow you to add OEM-specific brand information, offers from ISPs, user tutorials, and information to help your customers configure their computers properly.
2. Upgrade Desktop Deployments at Any Point
Whether your customers are midstream in Windows 9.x or Windows 2000 deployments, or beginning new platform upgrades, Windows XP can fit right in, wherever they are in the project lifecycle. Significant new and improved features—such as the System Preparation Tool, Multilanguage User Interface, Setup Manager and Unattended Setup—speed deployments and reduce operating system changes.
3. Provide Ongoing Management Services
Windows XP Professional has more than 300 new policies available to tailor the operating system to your customers’ environments. Desktop Control enables you to maintain consistent desktops; Application Publishing gives you installation and version control; and Machine Replacement makes it possible to swap out failed machines with replacements while maintaining user applications and data.
4. Build Wireless and Mobile Solutions
Windows XP Professional gives you the chance to profit from the ever increasing demand for mobility and provide your customers with extensive wireless and mobile capabilities. Features such as Remote Desktop enable secure access and control of a system from remote locations, and Windows XP allows for multiple network connection settings (Windows 2000 allows only two).
5. Enhance Customer Support Capabilities
Provide a higher level of customer support, more cost-effectively, with Windows XP. New Remote Assistance allows you to control a user’s PC from your desk for diagnostics and problem solving. System Restore and Device Driver Rollback enable you to return machines to previous working states for configuration issues. And, customers can submit feedback directly to you to build a knowledge base.
6. Offer Business Desktop Solutions
Windows XP and Microsoft Office XP are two great standalone products that work even better together. By combining the delivery of two applications, each powerful in their own right, you give your customers an integrated platform on which you can easily build tailored business solutions.
7. Establish Service Contracts
With Windows XP, you have the ability to add value through maintenance contracts that are easy to administer. The new Recovery Console provides a command-line console, allowing you to perform multiple administrative tasks. It’s a great enhancement to Microsoft Windows NT® or Windows 2000 (which requires a boot to safe mode, complete rebuild, or alternative method of file system access).
8. Develop Value-Added Products and Integrated Systems
Using Windows XP, you can integrate the third-party applications your customers are already using, or build and implement your own with improved compatibility. Windows XP features unprecedented levels of software compatibility, including Compatibility Modes, which allows applications to run as though they’re operating in previous versions of Windows (Windows 95, 98, Millennium Edition, Windows NT, or Windows 2000).
9. Design Network Solutions
Windows XP is an excellent platform on which to build and deploy networking solutions for your customers. Computer Domain Name Support in Windows XP Professional allows computers to be managed through the Active Directory™ service and Remote Installation Services permits Windows XP to be installed across the network to standardize desktop environments.
10. Take Advantage of Existing Upgrade Markets
Windows 9.x and Windows 2000 have a combined install base in the tens of millions, providing a huge market base for you to tap into by upgrading customers for improved reliability, scalability, ease of use, and security. Improved compatibility features in Windows XP also make it possible for more businesses to upgrade their operating systems.
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Top 10 Revenue Building Opportunities with Windows XP Pro
