Story: Microsoft loosens Vista licence terms
Personal experience contradicts FUD from MS...
I have installed a 30+ diskless PC environment and I can tell you that it most certainly does NOT have "technical Limitations" (BERYL 3D desktops are loved by the users), nor does it require "massive IT resources" (just 'lil old me), and it is a major convenience as opposed to an inconvenience (centralised management is a snap)... but then again the set-up of which I speak runs Fedora Core 6 workstations diskless booting from a CentOS 4.4 server.
The single point of failure is the server, true, however since it is NOT Windows if the server goes down another machine can be slipped into place, the old hard disk moved (or a backup image restored) and CentOS will simply restart. It won't think it is being stolen, it won't insist on you entering a long-winded licencing key or having to phone the vendor to reactivate the server. It will simply reconfigure itself and keep on chugging. Next up is to set up a high-reliability cluster as the server, at that point the single point of failure would be the electrical company and how long the UPS can hold out.
Now THATS service.
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