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Microsoft to Release a Thin-Client Windows XP

Posted by timothy on from the see-also-ltsp dept.

repking writes "I'm reading on Brian Madden's Thin Client Web that Microsoft is about to release (don't know exactly when) two new versions of Windows XP targeting the thin-client market (This products ARE NOT the Lite XP versions that Microsoft is about to release on certain countries like Brazil). Codenamed Eiger and Mönch, these two new releases would let you 'convert' old PC into thin-client Devices. Is Microsoft trying to compete with open source projects like PXES or ThinStation?"

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  1. Re:What's up with the names? by Barnoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    wrong. Those are the names of two of the most famous mountains in Switzerland. They are located near Interlaken, and the third one next to Eiger and Mönch is the most famous one, Jungfrau. Eiger apparently means ogre, Mönch means monk, and a Jungfrau is a virgin.
    Here's an image: Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau
    Eiger has a famous north wall, if you wanna climb it, here's where to go: climbing route

  2. Re:Been There, Dont That. by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    especially with graphic heavy apps like a web browser.

    we've found that heavy browser users like it on the thin client, proper, running local.

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  3. Re:What's up with the names? by incom · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What's up people's asses today? I wasn't refering to what the words meant, but why they were chosen.

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  4. Not going to fix anything by CAIMLAS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unless this OS is based off of their new Longhorn architecture, it's not going to do a damn thing to help solve the problems people currently run into with a "minimalist" Windows deployment.

    - There will still IE, and thus there will still be spyware.
    - There will still be Outlook, and thus there will still be various other malware.
    - There will still be MS's shitty SMB implimentation, which means there will still be problems.
    - If it uses Windows profiles, it will still fuck up and corrupt them.
    - If it still uses MS software, it will still require a massive disk image.
    - If any of these things are true, it will require a reimage at every other turn without another 3rd party application - which undoubtedly will not be compatible with this new version of Windows for several years.

    What, exactly, is special about it, aside from the fact that it appears to be some sort of morph between WinXP and Windows Embedded?

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