What to do when you need a large number of computers at Lab. at very cheap cost? The idea is simple, lets cut the cost of multiple CPUs, have single to power all the terminals i.e. monitor, keyboard and mouse.Here “Windows MultiPoint Server 2010” comes which will definitely solve your problem and save a lot of money. It is designed to enable multiple students to share access to a single host PC through a “station” simultaneously. A station is a device that connects to a host PC running Windows MultiPoint Server via USB and connects to a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. If you have 1 host PC with Windows MultiPoint Server, you can support up to 10 people connecting to it and using it at the same time (hardware permitting of course). Each person independently controls familiar Windows experience. The idea sounds good!
Lets have a look at this video which explains it more clearly:
According to me Microsoft would have solved this equation:
In all cases we interact only with input and output device and we rarely interact with the processing device(intermediate), i.e. CPU. So, why not take CPU common and make I/O device available to all. See:
There are several advantages of Windows MultiPoint Server 2010, on top of it is that it costs less as hardware reduces, upgrading of hardware costs less, expense on software reduces, takes less space, more convenient to use, saves a lot of energy and so on.
Interested? More details are available here: windowsteamblog.com and blogs.technet.com .
I guess for the first time in my life, Microsoft did some goood work towards school, I never like Microsoft. But, this time my attitude has changed towards it as we are thinking to adopt this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for update and the equation you made is good.
@Mark
ReplyDeleteWelcome Mark! Thanks of liking my post. Btw I am a big Fan of Microsoft. Hope this time "Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 " will not disappoint you, if anyone had in past. Hey, there are many video demos available on youtube, go through them and you will find it more interesting.
Even I am planning to post this message to head of department of my college, so they can make use of it productively.