In my role as manager of the North West Institute of IT Training Regional Group (NWIITT) I was charged with giving a 10 minute introduction to the main presentation at the March 2010 meeting. The brief was to outline the versions of Windows 7 available, the purchase cost of each and provide an introduction to virtualization technologies.

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