Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) – Vista in the Cloud
The purpose of VECD is to allow organizations to license Vista or other desktop operating systems to run in virtualized environments. I believe this is Microsoft’s initial attempt to capture licensing for the virtual environment and establish rules for deployment and purchase.
Additionally, traditional licensing language is oriented to a physical machine and in the virtualized [...]
The Next Generation of Microsoft Office
What has been called Office 14 is also being referred to as Office web. What’s the difference between Office 14 and Office web? Well, Office web is being compared to Google docs and Zoho docs as an online or Software as a Service version(SaaS).
It’s unclear to me if Microsoft intends to eliminate boxed copies of [...]