Windows Thin PC, App-V 4.6 SP1, and MED-V 2.0 News

Microsoft today provided some interesting updates related to Windows client in the enterprise and desktop virtualization. More specifically: 

App-V 4.6 SP1 is now generally available and is designed to make the process of virtualizing applications faster and introduces package accelerators that create a way to make it easier for customers to virtualize applications and enable application delivery in their environments. This package accelerator will be available by early April, and will be provided for Project, Adobe Reader and Office 2010.

MED-V 2.0 is also now generally available and removes legacy application barriers so that IT professionals are able to accelerate their migration to Windows 7 and also features new integration capabilities between System Center Configuration Manager and 3rd party software solutions.

Additionally, Microsoft announced that a Customer Technology Preview (CTP) version of Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) will be released by the end of this month. WinTPC is a locked down version of Windows 7 designed for repurposing existing PCs as thin clients, allowing customers to get the most out of their hardware investments. Microsoft previously discussed WinTPC on March 7.

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Waethorn
on Mar 10, 2011
Interesting time for IT. I'm looking at implementing a setup incorporating Multipoint Server and SBS Essentials along with Office 365 myself. Best of all world: local storage and AD, VDI with thin client support of Multipoint, and cloud services.

It's too bad that home devices don't allow for something like this via a home server. I'd love it if I had some kind of master VDI server device sitting at home while my "PC's" and computing devices had anytime, anywhere access to a hosted OS image over a high speed, secure internet connection. Each device should be "thin". I like the concept of these add-on notebook form-factor devices for smartphones, like the Folio and Atrix, but why does the phone need to be the device that contains the OS? I'd like to see an even thinner device to use as the phone, and have the OS available separately. Data always seem to be bigger than the programs that make it, so I'd rather the software be in the cloud (and I don't mean via HTML web apps), and have the data on each device, syncable

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