In the absence of cost benefits, there are other Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefits related to support, security, and sustainability that may favor adoption of alternate desktop delivery methods for many use cases across the University. Support providers should carefully assess their environment before implementing any of these alternate desktop delivery methods, keeping in mind that cost savings on the client side are often offset by greater server and storage needs.
Consider alternative desktop delivery methodsįor many areas and use cases at the University, desktop virtualization (such as ISC's VDI service), thin client deployments, or application virtualization can serve to replace the traditional desktop. Vendors such as Dell and Lenovo will make some new systems with that processor available-those systems will support Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10.
Support providers purchasing new systems who need versions of Windows other than Windows 10 should be considering systems that have the older 6th generation 'Skylake' Intel processors. Intel's new “Kaby Lake” processors will only be supported by Microsoft with security updates on Windows 10 Anniversary Update and newer. Awareness of Intel processor restrictions for Windows versions
