abstract:Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, previously known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and previous versions, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows (both server and client versions) that allows a user to access applications and data on a remote computer over a network, using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Terminal Services is Microsoft's implementation of thin-client terminal server computing, where Windows applications, or even the entire desktop of the computer running Terminal Services, are made accessible to a remote client machine.
Certainly Microsoft App-V, VMware ThinApp and Citrix XenApp app streaming cannot do this (XenApp RemoteDesktopServices can do this but this requires Windows in the Data Center and so in that respect is no different to VDI).