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Very nice work, but Microsoft did a pretty good job with their RDP clients, and making them for OS X and of course Windows. I'm not sure what the draw is for a web-based RDP client.


It's usable by everyone else NOT using MS (which, in IT, is a lot of people).


Others have alluded to this elsewhere in the comments, but the draw is that this is a programmable rdp client in Node.JS. You can use this to write host scripting code, you could use this as the basis for something like Screenhero, etc.


VPS / server management all from one user interface / control panel.


We have this already with VNC. Ramnode has a HTML5 VNC client in their CP.


VNC is supposedly much slower than RDP.


VNC is a raster/pixel protocol. RDP uses Windows' drawing primitives.

So for anything that's not intrinsically raster (video, 3d rendering), RDP is certainly faster. :)


RDP on ChromeOS.


https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...

chrome addin for rdp on chromeos or chrome desktop browser




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