This is a Vista newsgroup and most posts here deal with current releases of
Vista and how to deal with various issues that users encounter.
Your views of Live Desktop are naive. It's a good tool for simple tasks
using mobile tablet devices. It is not a replacement for a real PC and OS.
As a simple example, I do video work for a local church. We produce DVDs of
church events for distrubution. The typical input source is perhaps 10-20
GB of data. That is edited and processed down to something that will fit on
a 4.7 GB DVD. Sometimes video rendering may take 1-2 hours for a specific
component that has to be resized/adjusted. there are many pieces to a DVD.
A master DVD is produced and then a DVD tower is used for mass production.
These kind of tasks require real horsepower and processing capabilities.
There are many many other similar examples.
Thin client approah can work well for a small set of simple tasks. Things
like web browsing, email, and simple text editing. Of cousrse, simple palm
devices can already do all this. Most prefer laptops as they are completely
self contained, have full capabiliites and processing power and make it easy
to transfer data back and forth to the desktop at home.
I believe there is a separate newsgroup for your topic. You might consider
posting there.
Ed
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