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Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the your-chocolate-got-in-my-melted-cheese dept.

Anonymous writes "Citrix is putting out word that it's developing an iPhone receiver that could make 'millions' of Windows applications work on Apple's handset. (Something Citrix is calling 'Project Braeburn.') Aside from Flash and a few other apps, is anyone pining for Windows-based apps on the iPhone? (Exchange on the iPhone seems to be successful, but so does Apple's App store, which has done pretty well without Windows.)"

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  1. Citrix is near! by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    Citrix is near!
    Performance: oh dear.
    Sooner, the service
    From suds of yesteryear.
    Burma Shave

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. This may sway me to an iPhone by whoisearth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Working in IT, one of the problems I have with my blackberry is that the ability to RDP into my work enviroment is not possible on a free scale, therefore work is not persuing the opportunity. With citrix available on an iPhone, all of a sudden, my ability to work has increased exponentially. Now if it works properly, that's a whole other story... And I can just see our remote desktop support going "You're logging into work how now?". "You think we're going to support this?"

  3. Re:And with them millions of viruses by wastedlife · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do know that Citrix is a Remote Desktop (Terminal Services) add-on that displays applications in their own window instead of an entire desktop? Applications run on the server, not on the iPhone. Unless the Citrix client itself is filled with holes, there is nothing that can infect the iPhone, just the Windows Server hosting Citrix and the application.

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    Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"