From: mike 


http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Announces_New_Vista_SKU_Specifically_
for_Virtual_Deployment/1179419391

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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.
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Oh great, how many versions of Vista is that now?  14?  15?

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