Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is seeing something of a revival lately due to the increased penetration of mobile tablets. Why lug a laptop around that has a short battery life and takes forever to load when you can use a lighter, more responsive tablet? If you can get your desktop on your tablet, all the better, right? No. Not at all. More over, server based desktop applications, such as those served from the likes of Citrix XenApp and VMware ThinApp, which does application streaming or just the UI components, are doomed. We need need fat apps.
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