Intel IT plans to begin enterprise-wide deployment of Microsoft Windows 7 on PCs with Intel vPro technology in early 2010. Intel conducted an extensive three-month evaluation that showed the OS meets the key requirements of Intel’s business groups, giving the company the ability to improve employee productivity, deliver IT cost efficiencies, and improve manageability and security.

Intel IT collaborated closely with Microsoft to perform an early evaluation of the OS. It gathered Intel business group requirements, discussed them with Microsoft, and then developed internal tests to verify if the OS met each requirement.