Cloud services OnLive Virtual Desktop Office applications

Virtual Desktop is one of the most promising applications of cloud technology. Last month, the famous http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14090.html "> Cloud gaming service Provider OnLive released a virtual desktop app that runs on ipad and Android tablet computers that can provide users with a virtual Windows 7 desktop on a tablet that can run Microsoft Office apps. The application of the monthly rental fee of 4.99 U.S. dollars, providing 2G of cloud storage space.

This seems like a good deal for individual users or business customers, but Microsoft doesn't seem to be happy with it. March 8, the company's vice president for copyright and pricing, Joe Matz, wrote on his corporate web site, explaining his service provider's copyright agreement (SPLA). According to him, OnLive uses virtual desktop apps to give users free access to their office, which only allows some desktop functionality to run on a tablet, not the entire desktop.

-Microsoft partners authorized by SPLA can use Windows Server and Remote Desktop services. To provide some of the class desktop functionality in the form of a service. Once again, a partner can provide the service to any customer it chooses for free. However, it is important to note that SPLA does not support delivering the entire Windows 7 as a managed client, nor does it allow the ability to use Office in the form of Windows 7 services. If Office is hosted in Windows Server and Remote Desktop services, it can only be provided in the form of a service.

Microsoft's move should be easy to explain. Such cloud services will affect the revenue of their retail office, and OnLive's application will clash with Microsoft Office Software Cloud Service Office 365, which has a basic monthly rental cost of $6.

Saving money is one of the advantages of a virtual desktop, but it seems that the issue of royalties still needs to be addressed.

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