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Does Microsoft have a desktop virtualization strategy? Regardless of how they'd answer that question, the reality is that Microsoft affects almost every aspect of the desktop virtualization and VDI space. We use Windows as our VDI remote system. We use Windows for our applications. Most of our back-ends run Windows. And now Microsoft has entered the desktop virtualization race with Hyper-V and RemoteFX, so they certainly have a lot going on!

Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 4: Brian is convinced Active Directory is dead

Listen to the whole show here! Transcript: Brian Madden: So we talk about, so we have managing the device versus managing the personality or the applications on the device, and this is a conversation, I look at app virtualization versus SMS or System...

by Justin Meisinger on April 24, 2012 : 1 comments , 3,981 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 3: We discuss how clueless Microsoft's new licensing and tablets strategy is

Listen to the whole show here! Transcript: Brian Madden: And nor can they afford to sell at a loss because all the app store stuff goes to Microsoft, not to them, So – And no consumer – Rodney Medina: Yeah. Brian Madden: Like what –...

by Justin Meisinger on April 24, 2012 : 0 comments , 3,541 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 2: Rodney Medina gives his thoughts on Windows RT

Listen to the whole show here! Transcript: Brian Madden: Okay, so let’s, let’s talk about that. And, and the voice you’re hearing is Rodney Medina, CTO of Immidio, joining us from Amsterdam. And also we’ve got Gabe in Omaha and...

by Justin Meisinger on April 24, 2012 : 0 comments , 3,331 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 1: Rodney Medina drops in to talk about Microsoft UE-V and Immidio

Listen to the whole show here! Transcript: Brian Madden: My name is – Gabe Knuth: How you doing? Brian Madden: Hey. My name is Brian Madden and coming from San Francisco. That was Gabe you heard, I notice wearing your Ohio State gear. Gabe Knuth...

by Justin Meisinger on April 24, 2012 : 0 comments , 3,541 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #25: Immidio's Rodney Medina joined us and we talk about Microsoft licensing and Windows RT

Happy Tuesday! Today we welcomed Rodney Medina on Brian & Gabe LIVE. Rodney is a Microsoft MVP, BriForum speaker, and expert on App-V and user profile virtualization. He's currently the CTO of Immidio Software. Our topics included: Microsoft's User...

by Brian Madden on April 24, 2012 : 1 comments , 5,099 views
Microsoft announces virtual desktop licensing changes for Windows 8. Guess what? They're still screwing us!

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...

by Brian Madden on April 19, 2012 : 28 comments , 16,718 views
Four things we're looking out for at MMS next week (plus, tell us what you want us to look for)

As we gear up for MMS (by "we" I mean Jack), we're trying to focus on certain areas of the show, since a lot of it doesn't necessarily apply to desktop virtualization or consumerization. There is a lot going on, and based on the number of emails I've...

by Gabe Knuth on April 13, 2012 : 3 comments , 4,656 views
Microsoft releases new FAQ doc to clarify VDI, VDA, and RDS licensing

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...

by Brian Madden on April 12, 2012 : 10 comments , 10,446 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #24 - Part 3: Gabe discusses Microsoft User Environment Virtualization (UE-V)

Listen to the whole show here! Transcript: Brian: Well maybe not – yeah, I don’t have any. All right, so let’s move on. So, Gabe, last week you wrote about Microsoft’s user environment virtualization. Gabe: Yeah, I sure did. Brian...

by Justin Meisinger on April 11, 2012 : 0 comments , 2,758 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #24 - Part 2: Erik Westhovens jumps in to talk about OnLive and Microsoft's lack of SPLA on Windows 7

Listen to the whole show here! Transcript: Brian: All right, check this out, I’m going to send you a Twitter link right now, Twitter.com/cotoiaTTGT . So if you on the phone don’t know this, so my boss, our boss’s boss somewhere, Mike...

by Justin Meisinger on April 11, 2012 : 0 comments , 2,519 views
OnLive appears to cave to Microsoft's demands, changes DaaS offering to Server 2008 instead of Windows 7

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...

by Brian Madden on April 09, 2012 : 12 comments , 9,030 views
Microsoft UE-V heralds a new era of user virtual…oh wait, we had this already. What's it all mean?

Microsoft has been busy, apparently. This week, they announced betas of both App-V 5 and something new--UE-V (presumably meaning User Environment Virtualization, but I'm no scholar). You've probably read most of the articles that were passed around twitter...

by Gabe Knuth on April 06, 2012 : 5 comments , 5,805 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 1: Guise Bule of tuCloud explains his challenge to Microsoft licensing with a new DaaS site

Listen to the whole interview with Guise Bule here! Transcript: Brian: Good morning on March 20th 2012 from San Francisco. This is Brian Madden and you’re listening to Brian and Gabe Live. Thank you everyone for joining us today. Gabe, how are you...

by Justin Meisinger on March 21, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,302 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 2: Guise Bule joins us to discuss the use of multiple VMs for security and VDI vs Terminal Server

Listen to the whole interview with Guise Bule here! Transcript: Brian: So again why VDI instead of terminal server? Guise: Because terminal servers, I see it as a step backwards, terminal server. For start, it’s a technology that’s decades...

by Justin Meisinger on March 21, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,064 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 3: Guise Bule joins us to talk about how Microsoft doesn't allow VDI multi-tenancy and how single TS users in non-persistant sessions can affect an entire persistant Terminal Server

Listen to the whole interview with Guise Bule here! Transcript What’s your personal take on why Microsoft does not allow multi tenancy? What possible, plausible reason would they have for forcing you to overbuild your environment with all this waste...

by Justin Meisinger on March 21, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,000 views
Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 4: Guise Bule joins us to talk about Brian's new book, VMware WSX, and how sites like Wired and Engadget are impressed by old VDI tech

Listen to the whole interview with Guise Bule here! Transcript: Okay. So we’ve got 45 minutes into the conversation. Let’s kind of hit up some other news type things that happened this week and take our last 15 minutes and just sort of move...

by Justin Meisinger on March 21, 2012 : 0 comments , 1,017 views
Imagine touch-enabled Office 15 on iPads, but will we even be able to remote Metro apps?

We already know that Microsoft is working on Office 15 for use with Windows 8 . We know that Office will be largely a desktop application, but will also have some modifications to make it more touch-friendly for use with Metro. We have to assume that...

by Gabe Knuth on March 16, 2012 : 3 comments , 2,017 views
Gasp! Turns out OnLive really isn't in compliance with Microsoft licensing!

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...

by Gabe Knuth on March 09, 2012 : 15 comments , 6,176 views
Notes from my VDI Road Show presentation: Windows 7 is still on the "to do" list for many companies

A few weeks ago I was in Seattle giving my first VDI Road Show presentation, which is essentially a rundown of where we are with desktop virtualization today. It talks about why we're all still using Windows XP, why we didn't all use Windows 7 as an excuse...

by Gabe Knuth on March 07, 2012 : 5 comments , 2,947 views
4 ways Microsoft is screwing the desktop virtualization industry, and why I'm quitting the MVP program

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...

by Brian Madden on March 01, 2012 : 33 comments , 34,743 views

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Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 4: Brian is convinced Active Directory is dead

Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 3: We discuss how clueless Microsoft's new licensing and tablets strategy is

Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 2: Rodney Medina gives his thoughts on Windows RT

Brian & Gabe LIVE #25 - Part 1: Rodney Medina drops in to talk about Microsoft UE-V and Immidio

Brian & Gabe LIVE #25: Immidio's Rodney Medina joined us and we talk about Microsoft licensing and Windows RT

Microsoft announces virtual desktop licensing changes for Windows 8. Guess what? They're still screwing us!

Four things we're looking out for at MMS next week (plus, tell us what you want us to look for)

Microsoft releases new FAQ doc to clarify VDI, VDA, and RDS licensing

Brian & Gabe LIVE #24 - Part 3: Gabe discusses Microsoft User Environment Virtualization (UE-V)

Brian & Gabe LIVE #24 - Part 2: Erik Westhovens jumps in to talk about OnLive and Microsoft's lack of SPLA on Windows 7

OnLive appears to cave to Microsoft's demands, changes DaaS offering to Server 2008 instead of Windows 7

Microsoft UE-V heralds a new era of user virtual…oh wait, we had this already. What's it all mean?

Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 1: Guise Bule of tuCloud explains his challenge to Microsoft licensing with a new DaaS site

Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 2: Guise Bule joins us to discuss the use of multiple VMs for security and VDI vs Terminal Server

Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 3: Guise Bule joins us to talk about how Microsoft doesn't allow VDI multi-tenancy and how single TS users in non-persistant sessions can affect an entire persistant Terminal Server

Brian & Gabe LIVE #22 - Part 4: Guise Bule joins us to talk about Brian's new book, VMware WSX, and how sites like Wired and Engadget are impressed by old VDI tech

Imagine touch-enabled Office 15 on iPads, but will we even be able to remote Metro apps?

Gasp! Turns out OnLive really isn't in compliance with Microsoft licensing!

Notes from my VDI Road Show presentation: Windows 7 is still on the "to do" list for many companies

4 ways Microsoft is screwing the desktop virtualization industry, and why I'm quitting the MVP program