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Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allows a user to take control of a remote computer or virtual machine over a network connection.

RDS is Microsoft's implementation of thin client, where Windows software, and the entire desktop of the computer running RDS, are made accessible to a remote client machine that supports Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

With RDS, only software user interfaces are transferred to the client system.

All input from the client system is transmitted to the server, where software execution takes place.

This is in contrast to application streaming systems, like Microsoft App-V, in which computer programs are streamed to the client on-demand and executed on the client machine.

SharePoint is a web-based application that integrates with Microsoft Office.

Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and usage varies substantially between organizations.

In the 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Sharepoint was ranked as "the most dreaded" development platform ("a high percentage of developers [70.9%] who are currently using the technology express no interest in continuing to do so").

Office 365 is the brand name Microsoft uses for a group of software and services subscriptions, which together provide productivity software and related services to subscribers.

For consumers, the service allows the use of Microsoft Office apps on Windows and macOS, provides storage space on Microsoft's cloud storage service OneDrive, and grants 60 Skype minutes per month.

For business users, Office 365 offers service plans providing e-mail and social networking services through hosted versions of Exchange Server, Skype for Business Server, SharePoint and Office Online, and integration with Yammer, as well as access to the Microsoft Office software.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational software company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies.

It was founded in Richardson, Texas in 1989 by Ed Iacobucci, who served as chairman until his departure in 2000.

Windows Server is a brand name for a group of server operating systems released by Microsoft.

It includes all Windows operating systems branded "Windows Server", but not any other Microsoft product.

The first Windows server edition to be released under that brand was Windows Server 2003.

However, the first server edition of Windows was Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server, followed by Windows NT 3.5 Server, Windows NT 4.0 Server, and Windows 2000 Server; the latter was the first server edition to include Active Directory, DNS Server, DHCP Server, Group Policy, as well as many other popular features used today.