"...With VDI... client-side hardware and software -- notably, Windows -- become relatively unimportant."

"...With VDI, customers can create centrally managed, locked-down desktops that do exactly what customers need, and only that. With that, client-side hardware and software -- notably, Windows -- become relatively unimportant."

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