All About Microsoft posted a news story that Microsoft is planning to make available to its Software Assurance volume licensing customers a smaller footprint, locked-down version of Windows 7 that functions as a thin client.
ccording to the company, WinTPC will “allow customers to repurpose their existing PCs as thin clients” once it is available for download from the Microsoft Connect test site later in the first calendar quarter of 2011. (I am thinking this will be a beta/test version of WinTPC, given it will be on Connect. I’ve asked Microsoft to clarify.)Microsoft readies locked-down Windows 7 Thin PCs
“PCs with WinTPC will not require the VDA (Virtual Desktop Access) license that regular thin clients will need to access VDI desktops,” explained Windows Commercial General Manager Gavriella Schuster in a new post to the Microsoft “Windows for Your Business” blog.
