Microsoft adds Vista license for "diskless" PCs

This article on CNET details a new type of license Microsoft is offering for
"diskless" PCs in response to the variety and flexibility of systems
architecture. Interesting how quickly thing are changing...

Here's a bit of the article:

Virtualization technology means that one physical computer can act as many
separate computers, while higher-speed networks mean that different parts of a
computer can actually be housed in various locales. For example, it is now
possible to have a diskless PC, in which the main hard drive of the computer is
actually stored in a data center, while all the other parts--processor, graphics
chip and memory--remain at a worker's desk. 

But until Sunday, there was no proper way to license Windows for such a
computer. Under new licensing terms for Windows Vista Enterprise, businesses
will be able to use the corporate edition of the operating system to handle this
as well as other niche cases in which a PC's storage, computational power or
both are handled somewhere other than the desktop. 

"We're responding to enable a set of early adopters in finance and
governments, in particular, to take advantage of architectures that centralize
Windows," said Scott Woodgate, director of Windows Business Group.
"They either centralize the storage of Windows, the execution of Windows,
or both, in the data center."

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