I’d like to share a new information with you which was brought to my attention by Eric Sloof. Christian Hammond had released a first tech preview of WSX. Please visit Eric’s website for more information.

Link: http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/2096-Tool-Update-VMware-WSX-July-Tech-Preview-Release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ntpronl+%28Eric+Sloof+%7C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntpro.nl%29

A few month ago VMware introduced a new technology called VMware WSX, a way to deliver a full workplace into a web browser and I’m not talking about AppBlast here. Yesterday there was an announcement about the Tech Preview 2 for this cool solution. So what changed?

• New Windows Installer (Former version was Linux only)
• Even greater performance (Rendering on the screen was optimized)
• Retina on iOS! (Retina Mode for switching to greater user experience on iOS devices)
• Speech to text on iOS (The microphone button on the iOS keyboard helps you to use your voice to enter text)
• UI Improvements
• Bugfixes

(Source: http://chipx86.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/mbp-retina.png?w=630&h=393)

Link: http://blog.chipx86.com/2012/06/20/vmware-wsx-tp2-faster-shinier-and-less-broken/

Yesterday Duncan Epping published a new article about the VMware Workstation and Fusion Tech Preview. The most interesting part for me was WSX, a new technology in those products which makes it possible to access the VM desktop via a standard web browser. WSX makes use of some web technologies such as Web Sockets and HTML Canvas with a lightweight web server in the background. You can find a more detailed description of this technology here: http://blog.chipx86.com/2012/03/13/wsx-virtual-machines-in-your-browser/

Image source: http://blog.chipx86.com/2012/03/13/wsx-virtual-machines-in-your-browser/

My first thought when I read the article was: How could that new technology work with VMware View?

The article mentioned above also describes the playback of a Youtube video via WSX which was even more interesting to me. That really sounds like an additional option for delivering a desktop to an enduser without having a client software installed. And if this works with a full desktop it should also work with “only” applications. Is Project AppBlast already here? What are your thoughts?