Sentence examples for thin computing from inspiring English sources
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An approach to computing based around the use of thin clients.
Thin computing now offers an alternative.
Today, thin computing is not part of an anti-Microsoft crusade.
"I think five years from now you will see a lot of thin computing in businesses".
"This is an idea whose time has come, and the argument is growing every day in favor of thin computing of some sort".
Evidence that thin computing may really be catching on came in July, when Hewlett-Packard announced it would buy Neoware, a thin-client maker.
"We're not moving toward a world of thin computing," said Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, referring to systems in which simple processing takes place on a PC, but more complex processing is moved to a centralized computer through a network connection.
Telecommunications companies in India, China and elsewhere are considering supplying households with inexpensive thin computers and selling computing as a service.
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) contains elements of what we used to call thin client computing or network computing, along with the flexibility to deploy virtualized applications to desktop computers so they continue to work when not connected to the network.
People like graphic designers, engineers and financial analysts who need lots of computing horsepower at their fingertips are not candidates for thin computers.
Obviously thin client computing didn't completely change the face of computing in general.
OnLive (free) and OnLive Plus ($5 a month) are both brilliantly executed steps forward into the long-promised world of "thin client" computing, in which we can use cheap, low-powered computers to run programs that live online.
