Here they're using a Microsoft product called Virtual PC 2004 and i'm really impressed by it (which probably means Microsoft didn't write it, they just bought it from someone else).
Basically it allows you to create Virtual PC's on the hard disk of one machine. The PC's exist as a file large enough to store all the data they contain (so for Windows, usually about 2gig) and once you open them, it boots in a Window or Full-screen just like Terminal Services.
It's really handy for doing testing and experimentation with Windows products, and you can have multiple images that can inter-communicate, if you need to test a multi server environment. Anyway it impressed me. Here's Microsoft's link for more info:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
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Hahaha!! You were exactly right!!
"Microsoft bought Virtual PC from Connectix Connectix and released it as Microsoft Virtual PC 2004." :D
Anyway it sounds very nice and very clever. One thing I want to know though - can you have a little thumbnail of the screen display running in real time? That would be so cool.
That should be just one Connectix. I pasted one half, thought it looked too short, and then pasted the whole sentence afterwards instead of replacing the first part, and forgot to delete the second Connectix.
Hehehe, i forgive you. The thumbnail isn't real time, but it shows the last status if you do a "save current state and close". I think it also updates itself every 5 minutes. But no it's not live. But it would be too teeny to be usable anyway. But yeah, cool [geeky].
Ooooh. Very geeky thing mark! Next you need to try pearpc and emulate OS X! ;)
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