VMware accidentally leaks the feature list of View 5. Drum roll… underwhelmed

Yesterday VMware accidentally posted the Release Notes for View 5.0, the latest version of their VDI product which they'll be announcing at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas later this month. The leaked document was quickly deleted, but not before plenty of people downloaded and re-shared it via twitter.

The features included are pretty much exactly what Bridget predicted a few weeks ago on SearchVirtualDesktop.com, although she also mentioned a type of disk image streaming that's so far not included. (Could this be the much ballyhooed VMware "OnDemand" technology they talked up in 2007 that has since vanished? :)

So what's new in View 5.0? According to the document, the big things are:

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