From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013 10:28 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Is Surface really failing?
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: But if you seriously need to use Office interactively often on your server, then I suspect it’s not a common case (so I don’t think it really detracts from the point I was making that the Start screen isn’t really that important on Win2k12), O_o Terminal Services? VDI? Do people still look to do VDI this way? I’d have thought this is rather old school and wouldn’t look to do this as a strategy… I’d have thought that XenApp (or other app streaming tech – Remote App etc.) would be much more prevalent now. And if giving users an actual full virtual desktop, using thin clients was what most people did. Either way avoids the whole issue (I mean, pressing the keyboard Start button under the ‘old-school’ method with Win XP/Vista/7 didn’t invoke Start in your VDI session, so there were usability issues already with the previous approach). If I was doing a new Win8 VDI deployment, I wouldn’t give people a full desktop to remote into. App streaming integrated into the user’s physical workstation environment, or thin clients, would be the way to go depending on what capability the end users needed. But interested to know what your experience/viewpoint is on this. Offlist if you prefer. Cheers Ken
