Overview The leading French chemicals company, Arkema, is active in more than 40 countries and employs some 14,000 people. In 2010, the company turned over 5.9 billion. Arkema is focused on innovation, using its eight re- search centers to produce new solutions to help clients tackle such challenges as climate change, access to drinking water and future energy sources. Challenge Facing a major upgrade of its workstations from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Windows 7 , Arkema wanted to minimize the administra- tive impact and to ensure that all applications would continue to function as expected. The built-in backwards compatibility function— Windows XP Mode—was not a viable option as it could not be managed and was therefore seen as more of a consumer solution than a corpor

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