Microsoft Press announced that all of the free deployment tools for Vista are now available:
- Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment 2007: The BDD 2007 contains a set of process, documentation and the WAIK kit.
- Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0: Helps you with testing and analysing application compatibility found when running programs on Vista.
- Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 1.0: Idenitify which hardware needs to be replaced or upgraded in order to deploy Vista.
- The Volume Activation Management Tool: Bulk activate Vista and "Longhorn" servers that use a MAK.
- Key Management Service (KMS) for Windows Server 2003: Manage activation of Vista and "Longhorn" using a single KMS key.
- Virtual PC 2007: Run a legacy OS virtual machine on Vista desktops for those applications that cannot run on Vista.