Lisa Vaas wrote:
> Microsoft demonstrated DirectAccess for its new OS, Windows 7.
> DirectAccess is a way to give mobile users more convenient access to
> the network without having to fire up a VPN connection. On the user
> side, we get to eliminate VPN connectivity issues, while on the
> admin side, well, what does that mean?
I suspect this is yet another MS server program that can only be used
from MS clients. If so, any company that chooses to use it locks out
people who choose to use other clients. Which is, of course, exactly
as MS intended.
An employer says, we have this great new HR application that can be
used from "any computer in the world", just use this URL. But when you
get there, the login requires ActiveX so it won't work from "any"
computer. The HR department and the corporate IT folks never considered
that aspect and have no desire for a solution.
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Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359
d...@compata.com dhcl...@alumni.caltech.edu
"If I don't know I don't know, I think I know;
if I don't know I know, I think I don't know." - Ronald Laing
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