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Insurance Company Gets More Security, Efficiency From New Operating System

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Overview Lucerne Building Insurance employs more than 50 people in fire prevention, insurance, and financial services. Lucerne's client computing infrastructure was already four-and-a-half years old and very much in need of updating. Lucerne migrated its desktop and notebook computers to the Windows Vista operating system and is seeing increased security, simplified software deployment, and more efficient use of its computing resources.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft Tips	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Upgrades and Migration, Windows Vista

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