Hosted applications are not visible in the client UI. If a client does not support hosted apps, the user sees only the virtual desktops that can be accessed from the client. Horizon Client 3.0 – Clients that now support hosted apps.Horizon Client 2.X – The client is newer than 2.3 but does not support hosted apps.Horizon Client 2.3 – All clients that were at 2.3 in January 2014 and have not changed.The following list identifies the various versions of Horizon Client:
There is no update for the Linux client with this release. The Windows Store and HTML Access web client are version 2.4.
In other words, the Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android clients are all version 3.0. In this new release, clients that support hosted apps are now at version 3.0 clients that do not yet support hosted apps will continue to have a 2.x version number. In the January 2014 release, all the Horizon Clients were version 2.3. From the initial list of recent desktops and applications that users see as soon as they authenticate, users can quickly jump into the data they need.įigure 2: List of Recent Desktops and Applications Version Numbering Hosted applications are also supported on Android and iOS systems.
This seamless application access is available in the Windows and Mac clients.įigure 1: RDS-Hosted Applications Running As If Native on the Local Computer For instance, on the Mac, the application icon appears in the Mac dock, and application windows layer over each other, as you would expect (see Figure 1). The applications look and behave like applications running natively on the local computer. In this significant update to the VMware Horizon Clients, users connecting to a Horizon 6 View Connection Server can access applications running on a Windows Remote Desktop Session host (RDS host) from the Horizon Client over PCoIP. For more information, see the VMware Horizon Clients documentation. With Horizon 6, the remote Windows apps feel so native that end users will regularly forget that the applications are not running locally. We expect our new, RDS-hosted applications feature to be like that for end users. I found a red button that looked so much like the original piece that while I was playing I almost never thought about the replacement. By Kristina De Nike, Senior Product Manager, End-User Computing, VMware