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Kidaro, Microsoft, And Struggling To Define Desktop Virtualization: Page 3 of 3

Anyone remember green screen apps? (You know, a central computer offering up hundreds or thousands of user sessions to distributed terminals?)

The last time I checked, Microsoft, Altiris, VMware, Citrix, Novell, Sun, Stoneware, Parallels, and more are using the desktop virtualization tag in marketing.

Are they all examples of desktop virtualization? Don't be shy -- let me know what you think.

I feel a hypervisor-based desktop virtualization model with locked-down "admin" VM, ease of guest deployment, and remote management (including rollback functionality to protect users from themselves) and OS/app deployment flexibility makes too much sense not to succeed.

I'll be asking Kevin Brown of Kidaro what he thinks about real-world security concerns, creative solutions for enterprise desktop management, and his view on the state of the state next week.
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