Microsoft's Patch Tuesday breaks VMware clients
VMware is telling customers that two Windows 7 security patches have left the VMware View desktop virtualization client unable to access the View Connection Server, which brokers the connection between a user's computer and a virtual desktop.
This led Gartner virtualization analyst Chris Wolf to write a blog post titled "Windows 7 Update Breaks VMware View Client" that says this week's event is "an important lesson in BYOD" deployments that let workers bring their own devices to work.
Desktop virtualization products such as VMware View store a user's desktop, complete with operating system and applications, on a server in the data center, and a user accesses the virtual desktop remotely from a client application running on a PC, potentially their own PC.
