Comments on: The Ripple Effect of Windows 8 https://smbitjournal.com/2013/02/the-ripple-effect-of-windows-8/ The Information Technology Resource for Small Business Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:03:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: jaxun https://smbitjournal.com/2013/02/the-ripple-effect-of-windows-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2737 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:14:36 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=354#comment-2737 I read this and started wondering how I could start moving our agency in this direction. The major hurdle for us would be running some Windows apps on a linux machine. Then it occurred to me that with RemoteApp on a Windows 2008 or 2012 server, those apps could be piped to a linux client. And THEN, I found that someone had already worked this out…

http://bmullan.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/howto-integrate-windows-apps-into-the-ubuntu-linux-desktop-using-windows-remoteapp/

It’s not a total departure from Windows, but it would vastly reduce the client OS footprint. And that’s a damn good start.

]]> By: LTParis https://smbitjournal.com/2013/02/the-ripple-effect-of-windows-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2019 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:36:22 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=354#comment-2019 Very interesting writeup. As an IT professional, testing W8 a while back left me scratching my head as the product was about to be pushed to a final release that they would magically pull the trigger and have a true desktop mode (complete with Start Menu) and mobile/table mode which makes sense in that space. Sadly MS has really gambled that their foothold in the markets would be able to weather the user reaction, and hoped that “deal with it” would be satisfactory enough.

As of right now I am just in the middle of a XP to W7 migration at my new business, so there is still time for MS to redeem itself. If it were not for the lack of critical application on the Mac platform I would have pulled the trigger on new Minis. But we are still to far out to phase out critical CRM/SCM/ERP solutions with only thick Windows applications. Two years down the road, who knows.

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