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New York Times Says Thin Clients Are Making a Comeback
One of the seemingly eternal questions in managing personal computers within organizations is whether to centralize computing power (making it easy to upgrade or secure The One True Computer, and its data), or push the power out toward the edges, where an individual user isn't crippled because a server at the other side of the network is down, or if the network itself is unreliable. Despite the ever-increasing power of personal computers, the New York Times reports that the concept of making individual users' screens portals (smart ones) to bigger iron elsewhere on the network is making a comeback.
Now, the terminals that work has had since 2003 are back in vogue. Awesome.
Why do I M2 everything negatively?
...or, well, it would have been first if I wasn't on a thin client waiting 15 ^%*^&# seconds for a keystroke echo.
My clients are all obese, and show no intentions of slimming down; what am I doing wrong?
No, but I did throw granola at a deaf person once
and loaded with Vista Enterprise Edition.
note: you have to turn aero on for a complete thin client experience