Introduction: A 25-Year-Old Ghost in the Machine

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In the late 1990s, the phrase "remote desktop" meant little to the average office worker. Most applications were monolithic, installed locally on each PC. Networking was slow, and thin clients were a niche concept reserved for banks and airline kiosks. Then, in 1998, Microsoft took a gamble that would lay the groundwork for the $100+ billion remote work ecosystem we know today. That gamble was (TSE).