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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."

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  1. 2009 is the year of ... by Tamran · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the Citrix desktop!

    1. Re:2009 is the year of ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pffft. That's what they said in 2008, and in 2007, and in 2006, etc.

    2. Re:2009 is the year of ... by robot_love · · Score: 4, Funny

      Woosh.

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    3. Re:2009 is the year of ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's an awful lot of low-flying birds around here.

    4. Re:2009 is the year of ... by _KiTA_ · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it's an unladen swallow.

      I'm not sure if it's an African or European swallow, but that shouldn't mattaaaaaugh!!!

      %#$$0-6 NO CARRIER

    5. Re:2009 is the year of ... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

      but ironically to this story I'm getting a thick client on monday

      Lucky you. All of my clients are thick. Every last one of the bastards...

    6. Re:2009 is the year of ... by enjerth · · Score: 4, Funny

      But it was clearly time for something completely different.

    7. Re:2009 is the year of ... by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Some of us don't have a client at all, you insensitive clod!

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  2. Re:Windows 7 or 8 or whatever will not fail by camperdave · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  3. Re:Wait happened to "hosted apps are bad". by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't the general concensus yesterday that "cloud" computing and web apps were too slow and too server intensive?

    1. No.

    2. People keep using that word, "cloud". I do not think it means what you think it means.

  4. Re:Why not linux wins then? by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Re:Why not linux wins then? by genner · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Why not linux wins then? by rishistar · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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