A SERIOUS glitch from VMware/Microsoft has proven to be a pain to Windows users/administrators. "Non-free Software Provide Multiple Points of Failure" is one way of putting it:
I am often accused of encouraging use of GNU/Linux and thin clients with a single point of failure vulnerability, the server or network.
VMware is telling customers that two Windows 7 security patches have left the VMware View desktop virtualization client unable to access the View Connection Server, which brokers the connection between a user's computer and a virtual desktop.
This led Gartner virtualization analyst Chris Wolf to write a blog post titled "Windows 7 Update Breaks VMware View Client" that says this week's event is "an important lesson in BYOD" deployments that let workers bring their own devices to work.
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2011-02-12 14:35:59
The contradiction should make them blush. They basically say, "use Windows 7 but only under the supervision of company IT," without showing that company IT has the power to block Microsoft's update incompetence and malice.
Gartner is little more than a Microsoft mouthpiece and should not be taken seriously by IT professionals. GNU/Linux offers a cheap escape route from Windows problems but Gartner has nothing but FUD about that. While all sorts of companies from Chrysler, AutoZone and Lowes all the way down to mom and pop shops have successfully deployed gnu/linux for more than a decade, Gartner refuses to study migration to anything but Windows. Their site is filled with recycled FUD of the "Linux is not ready" type that is clearly unrealistic. Any IT person still ignoring GNU/Linux should be considered ignorant, incompetent or under Microsoft pay.