VMware has announced new VMware View Clients for Kindle Fire, Mac and Linux.

With labs supporting both Mac and Windows desktops, as well as students bringing in their own tablets, laptops and PCs that are based on OS X, Windows and other platforms, the education sector supports device diversity.

Ensuring that students have readily available access to their applications and a consistent learning experience across devices, the introduction of the new VMware View Clients for Mac and Linux will enable campus IT organizations to better support these end users, the company stated in a press release.

“More and more people want the freedom to choose the device that best fits their computing needs in school and into the workplace,” said Pat Lee, director, end user clients, VMware. “With the new VMware View Clients, both IT and end users win with a complete, secure and easily accessible virtual desktop on the devices that best meet their needs.”

While simplifying desktop administration and management by establishing a modern, end-user computing architecture; simplifying Today's Desktop VMware View is a complete, virtual desktop solution that enables enterprises to improve security and lower operating costs.

Offering end users with freedom to access to their desktop across the broadest set of devices, the result is a more flexible, centrally hosted computing model that provides IT with greater control.

In other news, VMware, Inc. recently announced the introduction VMware Fusion 4. The key features in VMware Fusion 4 include better performance and faster graphics.VMware Fusion 4 supports OS X Lion in a virtual machine, allowing users to get more from their Mac by running OS X Lion, OS X Lion Server, Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server and Mac OS X Leopard Server in virtual machines.

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