For companies it is almost a return to the era of mainframes. From today, the company PC becomes a little 'less Personal: Microsof...
For companies it is almost a return to the era of mainframes.
From today, the company PC becomes a little 'less Personal: Microsoft has presented Windows Virtual Desktop, a system that replaces the PCs of individual users with the remote use of virtual instances of Windows and Office thanks to the resources of cloud computing.
In practice, instead of equipping each user with their own machine and equipping them with the tools to allow them to collaborate with colleagues, Microsoft offers a virtualized solution through Windows Azure: each remotely accesses a single virtual and multi-user Windows 10 machine already complete all the tools - starting from Office 365 - for shared productivity.
Virtual Desktop allows you to use the Windows Store to download applications, is compatible with Office 365 Plus and is naturally dedicated to customers of Enterprise versions of Windows: the first to be able to try a preview, by the end of the year, will be those already holders a subscription to Microsoft 365 or Windows, which will have access filled in an online form.
In some ways, Windows Virtual Desktop is a sort of return to the past: at the dawn of computer science, before the advent of Personal Computers, there were the terminals from which users accessed a mainframe from which they derived the resources to work.
Then the computers became "personal", each machine started to have everything necessary for its user.
Now, at least in the business, it seems that we are returning to the paradigm of many years ago: Microsoft itself underlines - as if it were a novelty - that thanks to Windows Virtual Desktop «the user no longer has to host, install and configure all these components by itself "because the resources are managed and allocated by Windows Azure, which makes it easier to expand them as needed.
In fact, compared to the era of mainframes there are some differences: with Windows Virtual Desktop users do not necessarily have to access all the same system, but you can create different virtual machines with Windows 10 (and also with Windows 7, since the system also supports this version) to be used to work in collaboration with your team.
Apart from the announcement of collaboration with companies such as Citrix, CloudJumper, FSLogix, Lakeside Software, Liquidware, People Tech Group and ThinPrint - working on a new ecosystem of solutions dedicated to virtual environments - Microsoft has not unbuttoned further details.
It is certain, however, that we will know more in the months, when the Redmond giant will clarify his strategy for overcoming the "old" PC in the company.
