VMware announced View 4.5 (VDI) at vmworld this week. Some of the new features are..
Key Features
Windows 7 Support – Full support for Windows 7 desktops as a host OS or guest (virtualized) desktop to help customers with the migration to Windows 7 environments to help customers migrate to Windows 7 at double the speed and half the cost of a traditional physical Windows 7 migration.
View Client with Local Mode – The industry’s first integrated offline virtual desktop solution allowing users to download View desktops onto a local device and execute locally with or without a network connection. View Client with Local Mode helps IT organizations securely enable mobile user, contractor and Employee Owned IT (EOIT) use cases.
View Administrator Enhancements – Including a new look and feel, increased performance, improved scalability and new efficiencies through dashboards and the integration of application assignment to help simplify desktop management.
Kiosk Mode – Allow multiple users to share a published virtual desktop from a kiosk in a public or other shared space. Kiosk Mode helps to enable and simplify the delivery of kiosk based applications to end-users