From: Ad 

mike wrote:
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Announces_New_Vista_SKU_Specificall
y_for_Virtual_Deployment/1179419391
>
> ===
> LOS ANGELES - In a completely unanticipated announcement made quietly
> during a virtualization talk here at WinHEC 2008, Microsoft announced a
> completely new SKU of Windows Vista, to be entitled Vista Enterprise
> Centralized Desktop (VECD). Its purpose will be to enable Vista to run
> within an enterprise exclusively as virtual machines, managed centrally
> using System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
>
> Under the new system, a thin client logging on will request a VM image
> from SCVMM. Based on the user profile it pulls up from that logon, SCVMM
> will then locate the best server on which the image of Vista will be
> run. Applications licensed to that user will then be run from the VM, as
> well as the seat for Vista that's licensed to that user. But only a thin
> virtualization connection package will address that image remotely.
>
> The result is a dramatically new way to deploy Vista and applications,
> entirely through virtual machines but still licensed to virtual machine
> users. Users will still see many of the same benefits, but with the
> possibility for dramatically slimmed down clients.
> ===
>
>
> Oh great, how many versions of Vista is that now?  14?  15?
>
>  /m


(A) So how may versions of windows in current use doth that make?

(B) SCVMM? Unfortunate how close a V is to a U.

Adam

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