http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/mar10/03-18DesktopVirtPR.mspx

Or just google microsoft virtualization for reports like http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3871741/Microsoft-Citrix-Partner-in-Virtualization-Technology-Blitz.htm

Seem to say MS is giving some new push into virtualization.

RemoteFX  is supposed to deliver serious graphics like You Tube (did I say serious? well serious in client / server graphics) remotely. My understanding is that currently whilst simple graphics run on the host and the GDI commands are pushed to the client to draw locally, video requires the client to run the graphics processing, not what a thin client is built for. This new technology is what MS bought Calista for and could be good stuff if it does what it says on the press release.

MS servers will also be allocating VM memory dynamically - der, is that hard? I had assumed that was one of the benefits of client server computing but apparently servers apportioned the max memory a client could have and reserved it from start up. So if you had 1000 clients who all might need 2G of memory for 10% of the time you needed 2000G most of which wasn’t in use most of the time!

Dynamic allocation could make a real difference to server requirements - 900 clients are using 1G only 100 are using 2G you just saved 900G .  Imagine all the PC’s in your office / organistaion could swap memory at need:
“Can I just borrow a Gigabyte for an hour? I need to run the coffee-rota spreadsheet, you can have it back when I go back to ebaying later.”

Of course this is assuming all the clients don’t need there max memory at the same time - like when a really amusing You Tube video is released.