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Re:VNC Roulette by stinos on Monday December 29, 2014 @12:36PM (#8810769)
Hmm, surely a lot of windows machines on there. Why would one put VNC on there? It's not exactly the best remote screen tool out there (had to use it often in the past unfotunately), or did I miss something? Just because it can be passwordless? Or because they don't know about RDP maybe?
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Re:VNC Roulette by anonymfus on Monday December 29, 2014 @02:24PM (#8811317)
Because most of PCs are windows machines.

p(windows|vnc)=p(vnc|windows) * p(windows) / ( p(vnc|windows) * p(windows) + p(vnc|non-windows) * p(non-windows) )

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Re:VNC Roulette by unbeli on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:58PM (#8811178)
Most of them are not VNC on Windows, but Windows in QEMU, which provides VNC access to the console.
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Re:VNC Roulette by ansible on Monday December 29, 2014 @01:02PM (#8810906)
The RDP server comes with Windows 7/8 Pro; home and other versions of Windows don't enable it.

RDP works a lot better in general, because you aren't limited to the screen resolution of the server system.

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Re:VNC Roulette by paralelogram on Monday December 29, 2014 @05:34PM (#8812192)
It's not possible to use IBM SPSS Statistics over an RDP connection without paying for a multi-user license, even if there is only one connected user.
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Re:VNC Roulette by halalfood on Monday December 29, 2014 @12:41PM (#8810796)
my entire office uses vnc, reason is helpdesk sometimes needs to see what you're doing in order to help you. But you most definitely have to be on the network and we have a password, albeit very weak.
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