Citrix drizzles lightly and briefly on VMware's parade with Xen update Citrix swears blind that the 7.6 release of XenApp and Xen Desktop it announced today had nuh-think at all to do with the fact VMware's VMworld colosso-conference kicks off on Sunday. “It is a release that has been planned for a while,” insists product marketing veep for desktop and apps Calvin Hsu. “This is our second half of …
The metamorphosis of the PC, back into dumb terminal is almost complete.
It's actually quite amazing how close we are to this already.
As it stands, to do the vast majority of their work, all most users in our company need is a web browser. The things they do in native programmes could be done in the browser. So we could, theoretically, dump the PCs they have and run a "Chrome top" (or some other cut-down browser-dominant system).
The only thing stopping me from doing this is user resistance (including the boss, he hates anything non-Windows except his iPhone).
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