Accountants use thin clients. Their desktops actually run on servers in the data center, and the clients only display them. Which design is that?
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Short Explanation
The desk has a window, and the room behind the window is in the data center. You are looking at virtual desktop infrastructure. Putting a hypervisor on the thin client, calling every screen a web app, or treating the thin client as a shared industry cloud misses where the desktop actually runs.
Full Explanation
Virtual desktop infrastructure hosts the user's desktop on a server and sends the screen, keyboard, and mouse to a client. Thin clients that only display a desktop running in the data center match that design. A type 2 hypervisor on the thin client would run the desktop locally on that client. This design does the opposite: the desktop stays in the data center. Software as a service is one finished application the vendor operates. A full desktop session hosted by the company is not automatically a web application. A community cloud is a cloud shared by a group of organizations. Thin clients do not define that model. Exam caveat: the desktop still needs enough server CPU, memory, and storage, and the network has to carry the display traffic without turning the session to mush. Operational check: sign in at a thin client, confirm the session survives if you move to a second client, and confirm the desktop process is on the data-center host. Unplug the thin client from the network and confirm the desktop session drops, which shows it was not local.