Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by hhandoko on Friday August 23, 2013 @10:43PM
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Thin clients for VDI for one, and the trend does seem to go that way. With current generation hardware, a good 1U server can support 50 - 100 desktop simultaneously.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by tanzam75 on Saturday August 24, 2013 @01:15AM
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And then Microsoft makes money by selling 50-100 Remote Desktop CALs to replace those 50-100 physical desktops. The price per CAL is about 90% of the price per license of Windows. But add in the base price of the Windows Server license, and you're back to essentially the same price.
Net impact on Microsoft's bottom line: zero.
Re:Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
by Roboprog on Saturday August 24, 2013 @06:58PM
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At first. But eventually, less and less will run on the 370^H^H^H Windows box, as people get native clients (or good HTML 5+ clients) for email, memos and spreadsheets, and only "that legacy .NET app we still have to use" will be on the big-iron rack in the DP donjon.