{"id":9346,"date":"2009-01-19T15:13:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2009-01-19T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-desktop-virtualisation-going-into-an-early-grave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9346","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Desktop Virtualisation Going Into An Early “Grave”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read the announcement<\/a> that MED-V 1.0 (the renamed Kidaro product for desktop virtualisation) has been released as a public beta.\u00a0 Don’t get all jumping for joy!<\/p>\n

The final release will be a part of Microsoft Desktop Opimization Pack (MDOP) – where all good products go to die.\u00a0 You see, the problem is that MDOP is only available to buy for Software Assurance (of the desktop) customers.\u00a0 I told one of the MS guys not to do with Kidaro at a meeting at TechEd EMEA 2008.\u00a0 It’s certain death for what could have been an excellent solution.<\/p>\n

Software Assurance is one of those nice to have things.\u00a0 Look at Vista.\u00a0 How many companies rushed out and bought Vista just because there was a new version of Windows for the desktop?\u00a0 Not that many considering the concern about the importance of Windows 7 market acceptance.\u00a0 Times are tough now and businesses aren’t going to upgrade desktops that work fine for a couple of new features, hence they won’t buy Software Assurance.\u00a0 The OEM license is fine for them – and I hate saying that because it limits my deployment options to nothing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Restricting new software to just the SA customers seems plain stupid to me.\u00a0 Well, I guess that simplifies my schedule setting for conferences and reduces the numbers of local events I need to go to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read the announcement that MED-V 1.0 (the renamed Kidaro product for desktop virtualisation) has been released as a public beta.\u00a0 Don’t get all jumping for joy! The final release will be a part of Microsoft Desktop Opimization Pack (MDOP) – where all good products go to die.\u00a0 You see, the problem is that … Continue reading “Microsoft Desktop Virtualisation Going Into An Early “Grave””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}