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looks like microsoft has jumped into this area since i last looked (eesh, 16 years ago is what i was basing my info on!): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/prev
by genewitch 2y ago
looks like microsoft has jumped into this area since i last looked (eesh, 16 years ago is what i was basing my info on!):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/microsoft-desktop-optimization-pack/appv-v4/how-to-manually-install-the-application-virtualization-client https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...
https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/downloads/technetmagazine/nov2008issue/34_41_Vrtlsn_GttgStrtdwMSApp_des2ar.pdf https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/download...
so it looks like, in addition to the method i mentioned, you can also virtualize the applications within "App-V" which is like hyper-v for apps (is anyone catching all of this? is this thing on?).
Microsoft made a firecracker or whatever for windows apps and no one told me?
edit: i'm shocked there's not a kitsch-y name for this like "Windowless Office Suite" for on-prem office that's virtualized for app-v... Someone at microsoft should pay me if they use this.
- alchemist1e9 2y agoQuick skim seems to suggest the client to that system is Windows only. I’m hoping for a Linux client which apparently the commercial Parallels RAS provides. I think MacOS is even more hopeless than Windows for a per window or seamless remote GUI application solution. For Linux I use Xpra which honestly with GPU server and client acceleration can feel like magic. The dream for me would be a Linux based system for display using an X11 window manager to manage remote GUI application windows from all 3 platforms from multiple systems, all GPU accelerated on both ends. Apple seems to have a particular hatred for the idea of anyone using their OS remotely for whatever reason, though Parsec works quite well for me, though I’ve heard there is a sunshine+moonlight approach that does even better than Parsec …
- genewitch 2y agohttps://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rdp-for-native-looking-windows-applications.1984261/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rd... rdesktop has a "-A" flag for seamless mode which looks like it does what you want. I'm telling you we had that working 16 years ago via AWS - the AWS side was running windows but there wasn't any reason we had to be [running windows] on the client side. I merely mentioned that microsoft apparently didn't rest on their laurels with msts, they now support even more thin client mechanisms.