Opening a new VISTA for thin clients

Perhaps one of the biggest reasons giving a boost to customer adoption of thin clients is the imminent arrival of Microsoft VISTA operating system.

With VISTA, the base requirement for hardware suddenly shoots up to mammoth proportions - leaving organisations with the prospect that for all their people - from front desk operators to people doing pure office productivity jobs (read Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Mail) - they have to move from the standard 256MB configurations on the PC to possibly 1GB or higher configurations.

Clearly - "One size does not fit all" - is a lesson that VISTA is inadvertently teaching IT managers. A search for alternative PC architectures is hence leading customers to Client virtualization and thin clients.

Below article talks about an offering from a company (called 2X) that helps in beating the "VISTA bloat".
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7765&pagtype=all