RSSMicrosoft Introduces New Vista SKU Specifically for Virtual Deployment
By Scott M. Fulton, III | Published May 17, 2007, 12:29 PM
LOS ANGELES - In a completely unanticipated announcement made quietly during a virtualization talk here at WinHEC 2008, Microsoft announced a completely new SKU of Windows Vista, to be entitled Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD). Its purpose will be to enable Vista to run within an enterprise exclusively as virtual machines, managed centrally using System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Under the new system, a thin client logging on will request a VM image from SCVMM. Based on the user profile it pulls up from that logon, SCVMM will then locate the best server on which the image of Vista will be run. Applications licensed to that user will then be run from the VM, as well as the seat for Vista that's licensed to that user. But only a thin virtualization connection package will address that image remotely.
The result is a dramatically new way to deploy Vista and applications, entirely through virtual machines but still licensed to virtual machine users. Users will still see many of the same benefits, but with the possibility for dramatically slimmed down clients.
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Dear Sirs
Refering the new Vista SKU,
I like to give my consideration about sfter to test it.
Georges P. Sellinas
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VECD was announced over a month ago.
Press Release: http://www.microsoft.com.../04-02WVenterprise.mspx
Whitepaper: http://www.microsoft.com...922D&displaylang=en
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Exactly this is old news!!
http://www.theregister.c...ws_vista_virtualization/
Or lets look at betanews own release on the subject...
http://www.betanews.com/...tionFriendly/1175530392
DOH!! Someone needs to check their articles before posting!!!
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Well, let's put it this way: VECD was definitely announced at this show. It was given a rollout just like a newly announced product, albeit one that was sneaked in under the radar. So evidently this was a rerun announcement...At least the second time, it worked out.
-SF3
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