The end user experience is the key to a successful Horizon environment, and in this latest release VMware has added more features to improve the overall experience for the end user. These features are as follows:

• Physical PCs now support the Blast Extreme protocol.
• Blast Extreme HEVC (H.265) video encoding support. This doubles the data compression rate but maintains the quality. NVIDIA GRID is not a requirement for this feature.
• Support for copying and dragging and dropping files and folders for Client Drive Redirection.
• Virtual Print feature added. This allows printing to any printer on the end user's Windows client. This feature also supports client printer redirection and location-based printing.
• Administrators can specify whether users can open multiple instances of the same application.
• Users can assign RDSH-published apps when using Windows clients.
• Hybrid login feature now supports app access for unauthenticated users.

In the final section, we are going to look some enhancements added to Linux-based virtual desktop machines.