HP is quietly pulling the plug on its Teradici-derived remote desktop business, shelving HP Anyware and its zero client hardware barely a few years after betting big on the tech as the backbone of its hybrid work push.
The company confirmed it will stop selling HP Anyware, its Trusted Zero Clients, and related services from May 7, 2026, while offering existing customers a long runway of support and maintenance through October 31, 2029. After that, the platform reaches end of life, with no further updates or fixes.
HP says its HP Z Remote Graphics Software (RGS) will remain available as an alternative for certain workstation use cases.
"After careful consideration around our portfolio investment priorities, we have made the difficult decision to wind down certain areas of our remote desktop solutions," HP said in a notice announcing the shutdown. "This decision enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."
That's a notable comedown for technology that HP only finished rebranding in 2022, when it folded Teradici's Cloud Access Software into the HP Anyware family and positioned it as a central piece of its "work from anywhere" strategy. Teradici's PCoIP – short for "PC-over-IP" – is a remote display protocol that streams a desktop's pixels from a powerful remote machine to a user's device, effectively letting people run high-end workstations from anywhere.
The idea was to take that widely used protocol, deployed in industries including media, design, and engineering, and wrap it into a full-stack offering spanning software, endpoints, and cloud deployments.
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HP had acquired Teradici in 2021 with exactly that ambition, pitching the move as a way to strengthen its grip on virtual workstations and distributed teams. Fast forward a few years, and that plan is being wound down with little fanfare.
The wider market hasn't exactly stood still either. PCoIP, once a go-to for premium remote desktop performance, has been losing ground as vendors double down on their own protocols – such as VMware with Blast Extreme – steadily sidelining PCoIP from the mainstream.
Shops still running Anyware will have a long runway, but they'll need an exit plan before 2029 rolls around. ®