Tim Mangan On How Microsoft Will Enhance RDP And Why This Is Important
Thursday, 01 December 2005 by Michel Roth
From Brian Madden.com: "In the "Chat with Microsoft Execs," Bob Muglio answered a question about Avalon extending to RDP clients that have WinFX (maybe an RDP6?). I have been working my way through the blizzard of Microsoft information and found an interesting gem that could be what he is talking about, and it would affect the future of the terminal server market.

Both RDP and ICA work by taking graphics primitives in the kernel, down near the video driver (termdd). When they can, they try to use GDI objects instead of bitmaps, but bitmaps end up being the “lowest common denominator” when pictures and shading (pixilation) are use. In any case, these are graphical objects rendered on the server to a resolution for a 2D display “virtual screen”. These protocols do a pretty good job to figure out what has changed and, compressing to reduce bandwidth, shipping them over the wire. "

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