Apparently, they aren't Windows 7 desktops at all "Amazon Workspaces is not based on Windows VDA. Amazon provides the Windows 7 experience to end-users, delivered by Windows Server 2008 R2."
So that's how they avoid Microsoft's ridiculous licensing for VDI Win7 - they use RDSH like everyone else :-) Sent from my (new!) BlackBerry, which may make me an antiques dealer, but it's reliable as hell for email delivery :-) -----Original Message----- From: James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> Sender: listsadmin@lists.myitforum.comDate: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:29:44 To: <ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com> Reply-to: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Bye Citrix I wouldn't say that's necessarily a competitor to XenApp. More like http://spoon.net The problem is, they're not really going to attack Citrix much by "reinventing VDI" (again). People aren't avoiding VDI because it's hard to do and complicated, people are avoiding it because it's actually not such a good idea and 99 times out of 100 a XenApp or RDSH published desktop or applications do exactly what they need without requiring VDI. I don't think it's a huge threat to Citrix (or VMWare, for that matter). More like Amazon trying to see what they can move on to because they've peaked with AWS? IMHO, YMMV, etc. On 14 November 2013 04:18, Jeff S. Gottlieb <jeff.s.gottl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Just released today! > > > > > http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-workspaces-desktop-computing-in-the-cloud.html > -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
