On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** ** > > ** ** > > *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]> > 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. > Hmm, I'll check remoteApp out. I'm not much interested in going to Citrix. > 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).**** > > ** > There's some usability issues. Coherence is freaking amazing compared to other VM systems, It'd be good for RDP to work like that. > ** > > 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**** > > ** ** > -- Meski http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
