Microsoft, trying to gain a larger footprint in desktop virtualization, has applied a protocol acceleration technique to its lagging remote user protocol, RDP, and is widening its partnership with Citrix Systems.
The desktop acceleration technology was acquired from Calista in 2008 and is now called RemoteFX into Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, its former terminal services.
Remote Desktop Services includes the RDP protocol, which feeds the desktop display to either a terminal, or more frequently today, a virtualized desktop device, such as a laptop or thin client. RemoteFX will act as an accelerator for RDP but it will do so only for the clients of a server running Windows 7 Service Pack 1 server.
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