VPN Client Support

Actually if you read the very first post in this thread, that's how I started the discussion.

However, turns out that product never came to being in the United States, and has been put on indefinite hold (from what I hear) outside the US because Samsung may not want to make the investment in RT. If you see, the only tablets they launched here in the US are Win8 Pro.

That said, Samsung on their Android tabs did custom development enabling JunOS Pulse support before the APIs were available from Google in the most current release of SW, so Samsung definitely has a good grasp on developing/marketing to the business user.

I was hoping Microsoft would be the same.

We need one of the fine h4x0r types at XDA to port the Samsung apps.

Found out that Samsung has Juniper Pulse on the ATIV RT device because they worked with Juniper to develop it.  Is Microsoft just killing off all development and support for the Surface RT?  

http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ativ\_tab.html

Please believe me that for me at least is not about security but about accessing network files. This is just starting to be too much of a bother, first VPN and then the Google calendar blunder. I just hope this gets solved real soon, or I'll have to go back to the fruit, Office be damned.

Actually it was stated by a Microsoft expert in this thread that MS has NOT released the APIs for VPN client connectivity specifically.

If Microsoft wanted to make this happen, it would happen, period.

Enterprises are not buying up Surface Pro, why would they, the Surface Pro is a laptop replacement, not a solution for tablet placement.  And as a laptop it is far too limiting to fill corporate needs.  My enterprise is placing HP Elite Ultralights that have a much larger screen, get 7+ hours of battery, ports galor, dockable, etc.  Enterprises also need access to harddrives, memory, nics, even video cards, none of which a Surface Pro can allow.

Now take a Surface RT and place that as either a thin client or a tablet.  It is far more productive a device then an iPad, IE10 renders corporate sites very well, mouse use for VNC/RDP is flawless, Office (needs Outlook but I hear its coming) etc.  BUT.... almost no real VPN support other then what is baked into the desktop part of the OS.  Its a deal breaker, makes it useless, pointless, a waste of corporate money when both iPad and Android have VPN apps from most major vendors.

As a complete side note, they also need to plug in Active Directory support.  There is zero technical reason that this is not in there already other then they compiled Home instead of Pro version of W8.