Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th May 2007 18:46 UTC
In a completely unanticipated announcement made quietly during a virtualization talk here at WinHEC 2008, Microsoft announced a completely new SKU of Windows Vista, to be entitled Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop. Its purpose will be to enable Vista to run within an enterprise exclusively as virtual machines, managed centrally using System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
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2005-08-26
Um... it's not new functionality this is about.
It's just a new licensing scheme that makes it cheaper for an enterprise to provide desktops running on virtual machines.
In other words, it will probably be cheaper than the regular Business version while providing the same functionality, but only allow it to run under a virtual machine. (license wise, doubt they can prevent anyone from running it on real hardware)