For a long time Microsoft decided to not enter the VDI market, leaving the competition with VMware to its trusted partner Citrix.
This strategy has changed and they are working very closely with Citrix on delivering the enterprise ready desktop virtualisation solution however, in January 2008 the company acquired the startup Calista, and in July 2009 it released its first connection broker as part of Windows Server 2008 R2.
Now several reports this week are saying that Microsoft will make its move, by lowering the VDI cost with a more friendly license and by making VDI more powerful, with the merge of Calista technologies in the RDP code.
And will we also see Citrix in the webinar too, I should think so: