Microsoft Taps Igel to Develop First Linux Thin Client for WVD
…also to be prioritizing on Linux operating system to connect the WVD,” Ayres told Manchester.
To enable the Linux support, Microsoft is extending its Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) into RD Core, the protocol now used in WVD. “We are the first release of the RD core protocol with support for Linux,” Simon Clephan, Igel’s vice president of alliances and business development told Channel Futures.
“Some people don’t want to repurpose Windows to run a Windows virtual desktop,” said Jason Smith marketing vice president at Liquidware, a Microsoft WVD and Igel partner that provides monitoring, application layering and profiling software for virtual desktop and application environments. “But those that are that can embrace Linux, repurpose old hardware and run Linux, there’s a pretty good fit there with Igel.”
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