Re:Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata...
by ygra on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @03:37AM
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It wasn't really that closely tied, if I remember. It simply used Terminal Services to run a single application on the server. You've long been able to open local documents with remote applications, and have the general experience very close to a local application.
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Re:Windows Is Bloated, Thanks to Adobe’s Extensible Metadata...
by soundwave106 on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:09AM
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Windows Virtual PC, the core of the technology, is more akin to VMWare, VirtualBox. The "Windows XP Mode" part of the equation was that Microsoft offered a pre-installed image of Windows XP.
While the virtual environment integrated somewhat with the base (eg audio, printers, some networking shares and hard drives), it still is a separate window running a separate virtualized OS. I'm not sure I would call that too tightly integrated.
Nonetheless I personally found it handy nonetheless to run the occasional very old 16-bit application.