Microsoft will finally retire its Windows Thin PC product on October XNUMX, XNUMX, after nearly a decade of service. Launched in XNUMX, Microsoft introduced Windows Thin PC to help service customers repurpose their existing, but underpowered, PC as thin service clients, giving users a cost-effective alternative option to desktop infrastructure. Virtual (VDI). Although Windows Thin PC was well received at launch, over time it has nonetheless faded from the spotlight, with the availability of more useful and feature-rich alternative options such as VDI's evaporating cost drawbacks. "For organizations that still support Windows Thin computers, Microsoft advises that they consider upgrading to a newer Remote Desktop service client," Microsoft suggested in the brief reminder.
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Windows Thin PC is a light version of Windows XNUMX for computers running Windows XP that did not have the resources to support the full version of Windows XNUMX. The product was primarily aimed at business users to help companies get the most out of Windows XNUMX while saving on hardware upgrade costs on their existing computers. Although it was called Thin, Windows Thin Computer did not work on thin client devices. However, the product delivered a fantastic thin service client experience through the use of features like RemoteFX to let remote desktop service clients use the graphics hardware on the remote server. Not surprisingly, computing has come a long way over the last decade, and with the availability of feature-rich remote desktop platforms, it was only a matter of time before Windows Thin Client was joined by Windows XNUMX, which arrived. to an end in two thousand and twenty.