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Auto Dealer Upgrades Operating System, Improves Customer Service, and Cuts IT Costs

Overview Borneo Motors, an automotive dealer in Singapore, is test driving the Windows Vista operating system to empower its small IT department with better desktop management tools and to improve staffers' ability to access and share data. The IT department reduced desktop support time by an estimated 25 percent and service staffers are reducing auto service times by using Windows Vista to quickly search and share mechanical and customer data.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	February 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	N/A

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