If Windows 7 Fails, Citrix (Not Linux) Wins 638
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."
2009 is the year of ... (Score:5, Funny)
... the Citrix desktop!
Re:Windows 7 or 8 or whatever will not fail (Score:5, Funny)
People will leave XP for whatever the next MS millstone is.
There. Fixed that for ya.
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:4, Funny)
Pffft. That's what they said in 2008, and in 2007, and in 2006, etc.
Re:Wait happened to "hosted apps are bad". (Score:5, Funny)
1. No.
2. People keep using that word, "cloud". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Re:Because Citrix on Linux slows you down (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:Citrix.. the insanely expensive? (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:4, Funny)
There's an awful lot of low-flying birds around here.
*Cringe* (Score:3, Funny)
...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?
Re:2009 is the year of ... (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
Lay off the crack, buddy... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why not linux wins then? (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?
Re:Why not linux wins then? (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.
I confirm (Score:2, Funny)
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 :-)
Re:GNAA (Score:0, Funny)
CLIVE: You know that, er, big nigger who lives down the road?
DEREK: Oh him, yeah,
CLIVE: Huge black cunt.
DEREK: ooh, lovely.
CLIVE: I said-, I said to him, I said, erm, "Ephraim", strange name, isn't it, for a black?
DEREK: Yeah, yeah.
CLIVE: I said, "There's a load of cunts at the BBC, and they need sorting out." I said, erm, "This should-, should appeal to your fucking primitive urges." I said, "You like cannibalism, don't you? You like eating people alive in a frying pan?" I said, "Go round to the BBC with some of your mates dressed up in your loincloths and that, and, er, paint yourself up in different colours, you know, whatever you cunts do back in Africa." And so he said, er, "Ooh, that's nice, that."
DEREK: Yeah.
CLIVE: And he-, he said, "What do we do when we arrive?" I said, "Go berserk, tear the fucking place down,
DEREK: Spunk all over the fucking Centre!
CLIVE: spunk all over the Director-General,
DEREK: Yeah-eh, huh, mmm.
CLIVE: and, er, kill everyone in the studios."
CLIVE: You know, and, erm, I-, he was all, you know, he got about forty of these coons gathered together to rush round to the BBC and I was-, you know, I was really looking forward to it. I was looking to-, looking forward to tuning in to the news that night and seeing the news on the BBC that the BBC had been burnt to the fucking ground.
CLIVE: I turned on the nine o'clock news, there was Kenneth Kendall, calm as a cucumber
DEREK: Yeah, wait
CLIVE: No story about anything fucking burning down!
DEREK: No! Hold on, ho-
CLIVE: And do you know what the cunt-black-nigger-poof-cunt said when he came back?
DEREK: No.
CLIVE: He said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't find it."
DEREK: No!
CLIVE: "I cou-, I lost my way," he said.
DEREK: Y-, I
CLIVE: "Lost your fucking way!" I said,
DEREK: Bu-
CLIVE: "You were more likely wanking down Lambeth."
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why not linux wins then? (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!?
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:5, Funny)
Lucky you. All of my clients are thick. Every last one of the bastards...
Re:Why not linux wins then? (Score:2, Funny)
... 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.
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:5, Funny)
But it was clearly time for something completely different.
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:2009 is the year of ... (Score:5, Funny)
Some of us don't have a client at all, you insensitive clod!
Re:Why not linux wins then? (Score:3, Funny)
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?
"Oh no! Not the gravy!!! (Score:3, Funny)
"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!
Idiot!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
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...)
Re:Why not linux wins then? (Score:3, Funny)
ff...ffrre...friends? What are these...friends?
See those guys playing with your wii?
I call shenanigans! (Score:1, Funny)
Your story is total fiction. 1100 km? 1800 km? 500 km? A km is a unit only used in far away story book places. Places with FIOS, advanced cell phones, no DMCA and other fantasy stuff.