Jan 9, 2018 - Woody Walton Microsoft is always looking to increase the value of Software Assurance (SA). The Addition of Windows Thin PC, WinTPC for.

The previous PowerPC Winter Challenge I got introduced to Windows FLP by in his post here or even more in details on his excellent website Win FLP is a lightweight version of Windows XP with lower system requirements, created by Microsoft so customers with older hardware could switch to XP. Since I now own a Dual 2.3Ghz G5 and 12 GB RAM, I was messing around with Windows 7 QEMU VM's and stumbled upon this, Windows Thin PC. It's a 32 bit stripped down version of Windows 7.

Wikipedia The ISO download from Microsoft System Requirements and a bit of overview I've installed it using qemu, with 1300 MB RAM and 2 CPU's, install took almost 2 hours and gave me a 3 GB Harddisk image. I then used qemu-img convert -O vpc to convert it, then imported it on my PB G4 in Virtual PC 7 with 512 MB RAM and it runs, not fast but it does respond, not like clicking somewhere and wondering wether you did click something. Free serials cracks and keygens. It's more suited as a qemu VM since you can give it dual processors or 1 Gb RAM there, I'm installing all updates to it and can upload a qcow2 and vpc7 image with a default user and password.

Once my Xserve DP G4 finished installing Xcode,Macports,qemu and Virtual PC 7 I will have a try on it also since it has 2 G4's, 2 GB RAM and can run VPC7. I had good luck with WinFLP being quick on the laptop I had years and years ago compared to XP Pro SP2. Personally I think it's faster.

But I do agree that WinServer counterparts are not any faster and 'WinServer20XXWorkstation' is kind of pointless since you can do everything on a normal edition of windows outside of active directory servers and a few other things. I tried to use QEMU in the past but it gave me issues that I don't recall and VPC anything on PPC was slow. Thin PC is good too but at this point in my life all of my 'Windows' stuff has second gen i-series processors or newer that run Win10 so I don't have to emulate anything unless I want to try it out lol. I won't disagree with that. The Windows 6.1 line (7/2008R2) are much more modular so it's easier to maintain/remove modules which is probably why they stripped it back further to save on flash storage on Thin Clients. Back in the mists of time I've deployed machines at work with WinFLP and Thin PC for the purposes for which it was intended. Which for most companies is logging into an RDS or Citrix farm.

It needs a relatively up to date and secure browser to get access to the logon pages, and the client software for your VDI/App virtualisation solution and that's about it for most use cases. SuperFetch,.NET etc are all unnecessary baggage that aren't required for that task. Last time I used Server as a Workstation was for Hyper-V. That's been included in the base OS since Windows 8 Pro so there's no real need now. Plus with Hyper-V you can run a small dedicated server for whatever reason on your workstation now. Someone recently tested the Server is quicker than Workstation myth on YouTube and debunked it again. Think it was Linus.