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Look out Citrix HDX & VMware PCoIP: RDP and RemoteFX in Windows 8 is awesome!

At their Build conference this past September, Microsoft spend a fair amount of time discussing and demoing their plans for RDP and RemoteFX in Windows 8. I finally took the time to watch the videos from the conference, and I gotta say: RemoteFX and RDP...

Published Feb 02 2012 by Brian Madden , 3,358 views, 11 comments

A deeper look at Ericom's "AccessNow" HTML5 client. Why wait for Citrix & VMware? This thing is out now & works with View and vWorkspace.

Gabe wrote about how HTML5 clients work almost a year ago , and he mentioned Ericom's HTML5 client in his review of his Chromebook . Put simply, Ericom AccessNow is an HTML5 client for using remote desktops through web browsers. The client is "installed...

Published Jan 31 2012 by Brian Madden , 3,818 views, 10 comments

HP plans $200 zero client that can do HDX, PCoIP, or RemoteFX. (In the same client!)

Last week Gabe and I visited HP's main campus in Houston to meet with Tom Flynn, the CTO of their thin client group. We talked about a lot of cool things (tablets, Android, ARM, Windows Embedded, thin clients), and invited Tom to join us on our radio...

Published Jan 24 2012 by Brian Madden , 4,444 views, 10 comments

Will desktops ever move to the cloud? Newsflash: Mine is already is a cloud desktop. And so is yours.

When thinking of the term "cloud desktop," most people immediately think of either (1) a Desktop-as-a-Service remote protocol-based VDI-like solution (Desktone, dinCloud etc.), or (2) one of the pure browser-based desktop environments like the Google...

Published Jan 18 2012 by Brian Madden , 4,640 views, 7 comments

If Microsoft puts "real" Windows 8 on tablets, how will OEMs deal with that $70 Windows license?

While we've had a lot of conversations on BrianMadden.com over the past few weeks about Microsoft's plans for Windows 8 and tablets, there still a few open questions that we haven't talked about yet. The one on my mind today is about the business model...

Published Jan 16 2012 by Brian Madden , 5,107 views, 1 comment

Saying "the PC is dead" does not mean "the keyboard and mouse are dead"

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) takes place this week in Las Vegas, and it's expected that the biggest news for IT pros will be Microsoft announcing be details around Windows 8 touch-based interfaces for tablets. (Jack Madden will be at the Microsoft...

Published Jan 09 2012 by Brian Madden , 3,749 views, 3 comments

5 reasons it will be hard for Microsoft "win" the future desktop/tablet/Win8 race

We had three great articles this week on BrianMadden.com and ConsumerizeIT.com talking about Microsoft, tablets, and applications: If you think delivering Windows apps to iPads will keep users happy, you’re in trouble! Is Microsoft really building...

Published Jan 06 2012 by Brian Madden , 6,685 views, 15 comments

Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet strategy is based on their desktop OS and not their phone OS. That's stupid.

Back when the iPad came out in April 2010, I showed mine to a friend who didn't like it. "This thing is nothing more than an iPod Touch with a bigger screen." "Yeah?" I thought, "that's why it's so brilliant!" The iPad is just a big iPod Touch. They didn...

Published Jan 04 2012 by Brian Madden , 8,870 views, 13 comments

BrianMadden.com Zeitgeist 2011

Taking a page from Google's annual Zeitgeist metrics , we decided to compile some of our own for BrianMadden.com. (Actually we did this a long time ago, though it looks like we haven't since 2004 .) We posted 447 new articles & videos in 2011 (including...

Published Dec 30 2011 by Brian Madden , 2,549 views, 1 comment

Attention Vendors: If your products only work with virtual desktops in 2012, man… good luck with that!

One of my biggest themes of 2012 is going to be that desktop virtualization is more about "desktops" and less about "virtualization." Those who are (or who are to be) successful with desktop virtualization will be those who are successful with Windows...

Published Dec 21 2011 by Brian Madden , 5,719 views, 25 comments

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