
Instead, he believes the SKU should be viewed as back-end infrastructure that will be installed at server farms in the virtual machines that populate those systems.
MICROSOFT REMOTE DESKTOP 10 PERSONAL EDITION WINDOWS 10
"You won't see this running on hardware at a user's desktop," Miller said of Windows 10 Enterprise for Remote Sessions. 24-28, or with the release of Windthis fall. He expected that some answers will be revealed at Microsoft Ignite, the company's massive conference for IT professionals that's set for Sept. "There's a ton of unanswered questions," said Wes Miller, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft, noting Microsoft silence on such a move. But the evidence uncovered by Alhonen hints that Microsoft will expand a form of RDS to Windows 10. The new SKU will handle as many as 10 simultaneous connections.Īt this point, multi-session Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is a Windows Server-only feature, one that lets users run applications hosted on servers, whether the servers are on-premises or cloud-based. Alhonen discovered the option on the disk image (.iso file format) of build 17713.Ĭurrently, Windows 10 Enterprise (as well as Windows 10 Pro) allow only one remote session connection. The new SKU (stock-selling unit) installation option was found in a recent Insider preview for the next Windows 10 feature upgrade, dubbed 1809 in Microsoft's usual yymm nomenclature. The find was first reported by ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley two days later. The appearance of "Windows 10 Enterprise for Remote Sessions" as an installation option was noticed by Tero Alhonen, of Svenska Handelsbanken AB, who tweeted screenshots Aug. Hints appeared last week that Microsoft may be close to offering multi-session remote desktop access to Windows 10 Enterprise as an alternative to, and complement of, Windows Server.
