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Desktop Composition Remoting In the New Vista CTP |
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Thursday, 23 February 2006
by Michel Roth
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As rumoured before, one of the new features of the new line of Microsoft operating systems (Vista, Longhorn) is a technology called Desktop Composition Remoting (or Avalon remoting). This enables rendering graphics over an Remote Desktop / Terminal Server connection, thus leveraging the graphical power of your client. This could for example enable you to use graphically intensive applications via Terminal Server.
This technology will probably also appear in Longhorn Server. It’s unknown in what form though. One example of using Desktop Composition Remoting in the Windows Vista Enterprise February CTP is using it to enable the “glass” feature of Windows Vista. Michael Kolitz did a nice write-up on this here.
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