From: "Rich Gauszka" 

http://www.betanews.com/article/Vista_to_Become_More_VirtualizationFriendly/117
5530392
Still, in order to use these new virtualization features, a company would
need to purchase a license for Vista Enterprise, only available to those
who participate in Microsoft's Software Assurance program.

Along with the right to use Vista on so called "diskless" PCs,
customers would also gain access to a subscription license called Windows
Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops (VECD), which permits use of Vista on
virtual machines centralized on a server. "These are still nascent
technologies and new architectures, and we think that only a select few
customers are planning to broadly implement these centralized desktop
models today," Microsoft Windows Business Group director Scott
Woodgate said.

Woodgate and Microsoft had expressed a similar stance on virtualization
last month when the news about Vista's near-nixing of virtualization first
appeared.


"mike"  wrote in message
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>
> 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

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