It's hard to believe that we still have to deal with licensing for our VDI and virtual desktop environments today. But between TS CALs (now called RDSH CALs), VECD, VDA, user-based licensing, etc., etc.. there's still a lot to understand!
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On yesterday's podcast Gabe, Jack, and I were joined by Dan Brinkmann and Jarian Gibson . We spent most of the show talking about Citrix licensing, though at one point the conversation veered towards hosted desktops. We were talking about bits that vendors...
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December 05, 2012
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I've been all over the US this year speaking about desktop virtualization and the future of Windows, and part of that discussion is what, if anything, should people do with Windows 8. I maintain now, as I did before the launch, that Windows 8 should be...
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November 27, 2012
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Last week, I wrote an article about how the new licensing for Windows Server 2012 should work, according to the documents that were made available. The short version of the article is that the documentation in the FAQ associated with the announcement...
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July 19, 2012
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The information in this article is probably incorrect. There is a follow up article that you should read, titled Microsoft's mixed message on Windows Server 2012 Licensing: What's the real story? With Microsoft's announcement of Windows Server 2012 versions...
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July 13, 2012
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The recording of today's Brian & Gabe LIVE is now posted. Today was a really fun show since we had a lot to talk about. Specific topics included: The Dell/Wyse acquisition has closed. Now all the Wyse sales reps are carrying real laptops. :) With...
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July 10, 2012
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From the I-swear-I'm-not-making-this-up department, yesterday Microsoft announced a new license for Windows 8 which will be known as the "Companion Device License" (CDL). This is a license for users who want to access their Windows desktops (either locally...
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April 19, 2012
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Yesterday Nathan Coutinho blogged that Microsoft has released a new FAQ document that spells out different virtual desktop and RDS licensing scenarios in very plain and simple language. (You might remember Nathan from one of his BriForum sessions about...
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April 12, 2012
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We had two guests today. Jeff McNaught from Wyse stopped by to discuss their acquisition by Dell, and we also had Erik Westhovens on to talk about SPLA licenses and how he's approaching VDI hosting with his customers . Here's the full run-down of the...
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April 10, 2012
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By now you're all familiar with the story of OnLive's Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering where they appear to flagrantly break Microsoft's Windows 7 licensing model. (If you're not caught up, check out this and this .) Over the weekend, the OnLive enthusiasts...
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April 09, 2012
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From the " News we already knew, in spite of the fact that nobody would confirm it " department, we have an update on the OnLive Desktop and Desktop Plus offerings that have drawn the attention of a large number of industry experts and analysts over the...
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March 09, 2012
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A lot of people have long believed that Microsoft has been screwing us. But after last week's radio show and two fantastic articles from Gabe and Jack, it became clear that Microsoft is doing four very specific and intentional things that are holding...
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March 01, 2012
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We briefly touched on the subject of "very small business" VDI during Brian & Gabe Live this past Tuesday with guest Cláudio Rodrigues. The topic came about based on an email that Cláudio sent my way that outlined a recent VDI deployment...
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Gabe Knuth
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February 24, 2012
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Dealing with Microsoft licensing is a pain—it’s arcaic, someone is always getting a raw deal, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it because Microsoft is a monopoly. It’s natural, then, to be worried about the possible fallout...
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February 20, 2012
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Dealing with Microsoft licensing is a pain—it’s arcaic, someone is always getting a raw deal, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it because Microsoft is a monopoly. It’s natural, then, to be worried about the possible fallout from BYOD and consumerization. But while consumerization does bring the potential for increased licensing costs, does this even matter in a world...
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February 20, 2012
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For this week's Brian & Gabe (& Jack) LIVE, we decided to push the show back a few hours to give the West Coast folks a fighting chance to catch it live. (That's code for saying that Brian & Jack felt that they would be more interesting if...
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February 07, 2012
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Last week during MacWorld Nivio launched their cloud desktop, storage, and app service. Naturally, we wanted to ask all the usual questions that come up with any cloud desktop provider—hosting, protocol, clients, Windows licensing. It turns out...
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January 30, 2012
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I've been trying to get together with OnLive for well over a year now, ever since seeing their cloud-based gaming platform. I'm not much of a gamer, though. For me it was the protocol that they use that generated the most interest. For a while my requests...
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January 25, 2012
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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...
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Brian Madden
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January 16, 2012
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A few weeks ago, we struck a nerve with two back-to-back articles dealing with Microsoft Licensing ( here and here ), so this week we decided to ask Nathan Coutinho to join us as a guest. Nathan's official title is Enterprise Server, Storage & Virtualization...
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November 22, 2011
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Last week I had a conversation with Leostream CEO Michael Palin about their new cloud-based desktop service called “ Leostream Mobile Desktops .” This service gives you a virtual machine hosted in Amazon’s EC2 cloud delivered by RDP...
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Jack Madden
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November 10, 2011
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