> On 13/09/2011 03:21 PM, Invisible wrote:
>>>> Terminal Services is where you have an expensive server-class
>>>> version of
>>>> Windows,
>>>
>>> Nope, that's Citrix (it may have changed names since MS acquired them,
>>> but everyone in the industry still calls it Citrix) and it runs on a
>>> different port than RDP. Terminal Services is the service running on the
>>> remote machine that receives the connection from MSRTC.EXE running on
>>> your computer to allow remote desktop connections.
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, Citrix is a completely different product made by a
>> completely different company. Terminal Services is just another instance
>> of the general RDP protocol.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Desktop_Services
>
> Terminal Services most definitely *is* RDP. So is Remote Assistance.
> Exactly as I claimed.

So did I.  the part that you describes as "where you have an expensive 
server-class version of Windows, you install all your complicated 
applications on that, and then end users use their Windows-based desktop 
PC to log into the server and run the applications on that."

Is what I said was not Terminal Services.  It may be technically 
possible to do it via Terminal Services, but most entreprises who will 
require this will use Citrix.

>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix
>
> Citrix was not "acquired" by MS at all.
>
> MS got the idea for Terminal Services from Citrix, but the actual wire
> protocol appears to be derived from PictureTel.

Read the sentence just below the one where you pasted this from.  I was 
mistaken in thinking that they had been bought, but they are indeed in 
bed with Microsoft.


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