Microsoft makes available Free Vista Deployment Tools

Software giant Microsoft has added that they are releasing six free tools to help ease Windows Vista deployments.

These tools would be helpful for solution providers and end users. These tools are: Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0 and Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0. The company is also going to release two new tools to simplify product activation and a free version of Virtual PC 2007.

Microsoft said that the enterprise edition of BDD and Virtual PC Express were previously provided to select customers through Software Assurance. Others have been in beta testing since sometime.

Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows client product management spoke about these tools: “We’re making available a set of six different tools for companies to start on deployment plans and roll out Vista. It’s a whole cookbook on how to start [deployments], on the heels of [Vista's] general availability.”

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