Windows 7 Thin Pc X64 Download

By the end of March 2011 Microsoft will offer the first taste of a new version of Windows 7 tailored to the needs of customers with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.

Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) will make its debut into a broader testing phase no later than next month, with Gavriella Schuster, the General Manager for the Windows Commercial business, revealing that the bits will be served through Microsoft Connect.
At this point in time, the Redmond company did not provide a specific availability deadline for Windows Thin PC, but Schuster promised that downloads of the new Windows 7 SKU will go live in later in the first quarter of 2011 (Q1 2011).
“WinTPC is a smaller footprint, locked down version of Windows 7, designed to allow customers to repurpose their existing PCs as thin clients.
“PCs with WinTPC will not require the VDA license that regular thin clients will need to access VDI desktops,” Schuster added.
The software giant also did not announce a price tag for Windows Thin PC, and the reason for this is rather simple. WinTPC will be a SA benefit.
This means that customers with Software Assurance license agreements with Microsoft will not have to pay for extra licenses in order to leverage WinTPC with their PCs/thin clients.
SA customers already don’t have to pay extra for separate licenses designed to enable them to access Windows in a VDI environment as of July 1, 2010.
According to Schuster, WinTPC is just the icing on the VDI cake for enterprises:
“A while back, we lowered VDI licensing costs by making desktop access rights a Software Assurance (SA) benefit,” she said.
“When we released our application virtualization solution, App-V 4.6, we also reduced storage costs for VDI, making it possible to store a single copy of virtual applications on a SAN while deploying them to multiple virtual machines.
“Now, with SP1, we are working to lower the operational expenses of VDI by optimizing VM density through the new Dynamic Memory functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.”

I loaded ThinPC onto a Virtualbox VM, allocating 1GB RAM and onto Virtual PC2007 on a netbook allocating 440MB.
It's not thin -an overweight footprint of 2.4GB for a new install without any downloaded extras, and the pagefile is turned off by default. So around 3-3.5GB total. 7 automatic updates for windows embedded came down the line plus IE9, no problem.
Sound, networks, internet, installing apps, setting up user accounts, applying a desktop theme, creating a VHD, activating by slmgr /ato all work fine, and once the UAC was reduced a notch it didn't feel like Vista resurrected.
F8 menu, Safe mode with networking, net user administrator /active:yes worked as expected -it was difficult to tell that this was built up out of the Windows 7 modular embedded building blocks.
Overall a slightly more pleasant experience than starter - but I've never run starter in 1440x795 before either.
But there are bugs - sharing a folder does not create a shared overlay for the icon for the folder. Action center tells you to get some protection, but after downloading MSE, it cannot install due to an unsupported OS. What else doesn't work - Windows Defender has nothing in control panel, and when you try to add Windows components and features - they have been disabled by some absentee administrator. Technet suggested 3rd party antimalware apps.
There are other deficiencies - In the start menu programs there is a system restore item which leads you to the missing system protection tab in the system properties, so there is no way to turn on system restore. There is no backup and restore in systems maintenance nor the link to create a system repair disk. Again, there are no apparent means to turn these features on.
Still there are more things available that you cannot do in starter - gpedit.msc, and rsop.msc are present, you can create a homegroup password, but I couldn't get this to work any further; and you can join a domain, manage users and groups. I did map shares in and out of the VM so networks were definitely working. Not so much locked down as locked out of the kitchen with no way to get to the pantry.
So overall not a bad experience, considering this is typical of the public beta testing that Microsoft likes to do - I am a ThinPC and this was My Idea! - but nowhere near ready to release to businesses yet unless they want to be overrun with malware.
I still think it is a cunning ploy to get users as far away from XP as possible, maybe so they go home from working at their ThinPCs and look at their old systems and decide to upgrade or buy new kit.