{"id":82362,"date":"2008-05-28T04:25:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T11:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infraops.wordpress.com\/?p=81"},"modified":"2021-01-29T23:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T06:05:20","slug":"a-good-week-for-mdop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/a-good-week-for-mdop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Week for MDOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we had the pleasure of spending time with Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise <\/em>at the Redmond stop of his week-long press tour.. It was great to see first hand how much has MDOP plays a strategic role in the Microsoft’s desktop stack…<\/p>\n

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  1. He told the press that Microsoft has sold over 6.5 million licenses of MDOP to date, making it the fastest-selling volume licensing product in Microsoft history.
    \n–> A lot of these will be deployed in the next 12-months which is GREAT news for most of us \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  2. He also told that officially, Microsoft had completed its acquisition of Kidaro<\/a>, an Israeli-based startup that allows management of virtual machines and many other virtualization features much-much user friendly. Furthermore the product will be included in the MDOP offering, with the name “Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization” . This is fantastic news as it increases the value of MDOP tremendously. We are very exited about seeing the product come to market in the early 2009.<\/li>\n
  3. We will make a special posting on the Kidaro technology, but to give you an idea:
    \nduring the demo we saw a scenario in which IE6 launched inside a XP-Virtual PC (transparent to the user) based on a specific URL being typed on IE7 – Very useful in application compatability challenges —<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Shanen’s full article can be found at: Windows Vista News Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

    Exciting times coming ahead! – Look forward to the rest of 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n

    PS – I noticed that we got a quoted by Ina Fried on \u201cB<\/a><\/span>eyond Binary \/ CNET<\/a> \u201c blog <\/span>… She noted:<\/span><\/p>\n

    I am sure we will be exploring this theme in the near future… Stay tuned! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    For the company, such personally owned laptops can save on support costs and serve as a retention tools for Generation Y-ers, said Lee Nicholls, global solutions director for IT consultant Getronics. <\/em><\/p>\n

    “They have a really high expectation of what they want to work with,” Nicholls said. “They want a degree of flexibility.” <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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