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If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins
Julie188 writes "Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley, who has been using Windows 7 full-time, predicts that Windows 7 will fail to lure XP users away from their beloved, aging operating system — after all, Windows 7 is little more than what Vista should have been, when it shipped two years ago. But eventually old PCs must be replaced and then we'll see corporations, desperate to get out of the expense of managing Windows machines, get wise. Instead of buying new Windows 7 PCs, they could deliver virtualized XP desktops to a worker's own PC and/or mobile device. Ashley believes that Citrix's Project Independence has the right idea."
... the Citrix desktop!
People will leave XP for whatever the next MS milestone is.
People will leave XP for whatever the next MS millstone is.
There. Fixed that for ya.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
1. No.
2. People keep using that word, "cloud". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Javascript + Nintendo DSi = DSiCade
I type so fast that I mean "Citrix" and I get "cItrix"
All I've gotta do is type fast to get clit tricks? I've been paying real money all this time!
Citrix has some good ideas and technology. The implementation however is usually very bad. It's the Peoplesoft of virtualization.
This is, without a doubt, the most true statement I have ever read on Slashdot.
...they could deliver virtualized XP desktops to a worker's own PC and/or mobile device...
Anybody else just throw up a little bit in their mouth?
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I've been using computers since 1982, and working in various roles (mostly programmer, also sysadmin, NOC monkey & webdev) sincw 1996. In all that time, the only time I've ever seen Citrix in use was at one job where the only thing it did was give remote access to the payroll timeclock system. I think AmigaOS has a better chance of beating Windows 7 and Linux than does Citrix.
The average person (if they have heard of Linux at all, and most haven't) tend to think of it as something for anti-social geeks who will be mean to them if they ask for help.
Where on earth would people get such crazy ideas?
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Linux also has a PR problem. The average person (if they have heard of Linux at all, and most haven't) tend to think of it as something for anti-social geeks who will be mean to them if they ask for help.
Only idotic noobs believe that and they should be shunned.
And the biggest thing? I've been running it, attached to the internet, for two years without having an anti-virus program installed, and NO ISSUES. I don't think I could do that with XP for even a single day.
I fully confirm that. I'm also getting into HIS computer attached to the internet, and yes, it's without an anti-virus.
And yes, until today I had NO ISSUES :-)
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We need to educate them by bringing them all here! Which brings me to a question: Why is there no 'invite friends' function on Slashdot!?
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... Why is there no 'invite friends' function on Slashdot!?
There is.
You just have to have friends for it to be displayed.
Welcome to Web 2.0.
Why is there no 'invite friends' function on Slashdot!?
Wait a second! We're allowed to have friends? Why did nobody tell me this before?
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
"Geeks are some of the most commited people I know..."
I would have to agree, as I have been committed several times.
I went cooperatively this time, and it went much better for me...I should be released after only 6 months this time!
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
Holy Crap, you're a stupid putz. All you gotta do is open your slash.conf file under /etc/http/sys/slashhacks with Vi and scroll down to line 239 -- it's clearly documented with the REM statement! -- and change the value "invitefriends=0" to "invitefriends=1".
Gawd, yer dense!
(tag: humor, for the humor impaired, or in the case that this is close enough to reality to be taken seriously...)
He put his boots up on the table and made a face. "The sig," he smirked. "You can waste your life in search of the sig."
ff...ffrre...friends? What are these...friends?
See those guys playing with your wii?