{"id":683,"date":"2019-07-01T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/?page_id=683"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:12:14","slug":"6-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/6-1-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"6.1. Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='content-column two_third'><p>Virtual desktops provide users with a desktop that may be accessed from anywhere.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='content-column one_third last_column'><figure id=\"attachment_53\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-53 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/80502_033-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/80502_033-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/80502_033.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Designed by macrovector \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepik.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freepik<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div>\n<div class=\"featured featured-blue\"><p><strong>Virtual desktops<\/strong> are applications that provide users with access to a cloud-stored desktop from several devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Therefore, this is a very interesting management tool for users who need to make sure that neither mobility nor multi-device access are an obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual desktops are intended to be <strong>application launchers<\/strong>. This means that applications and web services may be added to them, so that they may be accessible at any time and from any device. <strong>Netvibes<\/strong> and <strong>Symbaloo<\/strong> are two of the most popular virtual desktop applications.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54\" style=\"width: 762px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-54 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/80502_034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"762\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/80502_034.jpg 762w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/80502_034-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 10. Interface of the virtual desktop Symbaloo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therefore, this is a very interesting management tool for users who need to make sure that neither mobility nor multi-device access are an obstacle. Virtual desktops are intended to be application launchers. This means that applications and web services may be added to them, so that they may be accessible at any time and from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/informacio-digital.recursos.uoc.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}