Desktone offers virtual desktops as an online service.

Desktone提供了在线虚拟桌面。

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Applications are organized into "zones," which are loosely analogous to virtual desktops.

程序被分入各“zone”，有点类似虚拟桌面。

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Gartner projects that approximately 50 million user licenses for hosted virtual desktops will be purchased by 2013.

Gartner预测，托管的虚拟桌面到2013年会有约五千万的用户许可被购买。

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He says these "virtual desktops" lower costs,reduce energy use and lessen the need for technical support.

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Those of us using VDI could work uninterrupted, since our virtual desktops were running in our data centers.

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Very nice support for "virtual desktops previews" to help handle a large number of open application windows at one time.

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When implementing a VDI using HDD, organizations typically only buy the amount of disks necessary for the number of users that will be leveraging virtual desktops.

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