Does the NetPC announcement from Microsoft and Intel impact the advantages of using Neowares Thin Clients?
No. The NetPC concept is not widely accepted in the industry, because a NetPC is not vastly different from a PC, and doesn’t offer significant cost or administration savings. The Microsoft “Zero Administration Initiative” is not yet a complete product. It is not proven or accepted in the marketplace. This initiative would require another layer of operating system to attempt to “automate” some of the administrative burden inherent in maintaining PC’s on numerous desktops. It in itself would require more powerful PCs and new versions of the operating system, and new hardware features to implement. These are just the problems that the @workStation Network Computer was designed to address. The NetPC hardware reference calls for a scaled-down, locked-down, lower-end PC with a locked case and no end-user expansion slots. Windows applications still run on the desktop, so the desktop performance will continue to be an issue as will desktop obsolescence.
