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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."
And then you get people like me, where I use Linux instead of Windows because Windows just doesn't do what I want it to. Huge gap in software availability, and the performance hit is just abysmal. Gotta download all kinds of programs just to get a functional system, and then keep those programs updated by checking the web periodically and downloading and installing the new versions. Not to mention that multimedia on Linux just works. A single player for almost all files, instead of 15 different players to support everything you might want to do.
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