Yesterday, VMware released ThinApp 4.5 which adds support for new operating systems and additional features. The What’s New document can give you an insight.

The German language blog www.vireference.de published an article which compares the three different kinds of Teradici hardware zero clients for VMware View. The main devices are: Class 1 (eVGA, Leadtek, Wyse P20), Class 2 (DevonIT, Verari) and Class 3 (Samsung thin client monitors). Beside the technical information, the article describes the compatibility for View 4. It should be possible to use Google translation for this article.

Teradici published a new web site which gives you an overview of all Teradici PCoIP zero clients and their compatibility to VMware View 4 with software PCoIP.

Fujitsu teamed-up with the hardware vendor PanoLogic to deliver a zero client monitor device for desktop virtualization. The companies will produce a client device which contains connectors for network, keyboard and mouse.

At VMworld 2009 VMware announced an OEM agreement with RTO Software, to integrate their Virtual Profiles technology into VMware View. This was an important step for VMware due to the gap of a Windows profile management solution. Today VMware announced the acquisition of RTO Software and their product portfolio. With RTO VMware View will have a great persona management in the View solution.

VMware just announced a new maintenance release for VMware View 4. The new version 4.0.1 resolves some known issues from the previous release and includes also new features.

Back in August 2009 Devon IT released the VDI Blaster software to help companies to repurpose personal computers into thin clients. The new version 1.1 now supports VMware View 4 and the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) protocol which gives users a true PC like experience, including multimedia. The new version also includes the ability to boot the VDI blaster software from a USB key or a CD-ROM in addition to the network installation.

Over at the ThinApp blog there was a new article publishes which describes how to map a network drive within a ThinApp packaged application.

At Partner Exchange 2010 in Las Vegas VMware unveiled the VMware Express, a huge truck which is chock full of all kind of VMware goodness. A rolling datacenter crossing the U.S. and Canada. Check out the full article on the VMware View Blog.