The ultimate Vista demo DVD
We're going to be bringing the Demo Readiness Toolkit (DRT) to our UK Partners very soon. James and Matt are working on this and in the same way that Chris's work is helping to accelerate the usage of Demo Showcase, and hence stack sales, we hope the DRT accelerates partner capability around Vista (and Office).
What is the DRT?
It's a demonstration image that you can load directly on to a PC in the same way you would install an operating system. The big difference is the operating system is populated with settings and media to simulate an end-user PC experience. It provides an out of the box demo experience saving you from having to put all your down demo settings and content in there which for those who have done this stuff before can take up several days to get to a killer demo. The DRT is based off Windows Vista Ultimate and includes: demo scripts, hardware recommendations, presentation resources, and release notes.
My bet is this can save 1-2 days of demo building hell which means more productive sales teams, faster.
Watch out for our registration site coming up very soon. We've going to provide a way for partners to order the CD rather than drop it from the sky as my theory is that when people take the time to actually come along an register for this DVD, it's more likely that they will actually use it rather than it becoming a coffee coaster. Agree?