Is t here really such a thing as splitting the PC from the desktop? Apparently, the common belief is that there is…

Wyse Technologies and VMware are doing the dance of the virtualized desktop.

Wyse on August 2 rolled out hardware designed to support VMware’s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, software that allows companies to host and distribute a Microsoft Windows XP desktop environment located on a server to employees’ desktops.

The two technology companies, along with several others that are part of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to promote virtualized desktops, are envisioning an IT world where desktops aren’t necessarily deployed in PCs anymore.

Instead, the essence of a machine—its user interface, applications and data—is virtualized and hosted on a server, which essentially broadcasts that environment to a user, who can access it with a range of inexpensive hardware…. Source: eWeek