As Microsoft positions itself to deploy Windows 7 within the next 6-14 months, it has begun to demonstrate the features that it hopes will attract enterprise administrators to the new platform.

Amongst the features touched upon in Ars Technica’s time is a so-called in-place image which will deploy a fresh installation of Windows 7 around existing user data. Other features include a “problem recorder” which allows end-users to transparently log, screencap and highlight buttons in reproducing steps that resulted in an error; Microsoft intends these recordings to be used by administrators in troubleshooting software issues.

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