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by bhouston 1868 days ago
I think that corporations may want to force all their users to use Mighty so that they can control exactly what goes on in the browser -- it is easier to pay Mighty to "virtualize" the browser, than it is to keep all computers up to date and without malicious extensions.

Maybe even prevent browsers from downloading files onto the local computer. A full recording of each user's sessions. Integrated password manager that uses the Mighty login to tie them all together.

So I view it as valuable to corporations and thus mighty falls into the B2B category of company which makes software end users hate, but corporations love.

Probably a fair bit of money in that.

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> easier to pay Mighty to "virtualize" the browser, than it is to keep all computers up to date and without malicious extensions.

Not denying your other points but Amazon Workspaces[1] is a product that perfectly fits their needs.

From a top-level exec's stand point I would imagine they would be more willing to buy something like Amazon Workspaces which gives them 100% control and peace of mind Vs piecemeal approach such as browser, conference call client etc.,

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces

Except VDI products for enterprise already exist and are much cheaper than Mighty. AWS, Citrix, VMware, and probably others play in this space.
Don’t they already do this with VMs for less cost?