Cris Lau
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XenDesktop 7: Investing big to make application delivery easier!
Since the XenDesktop 7 announcement at Citrix Synergy keynote (@ ~25min in) and my XenDesktop 7 blog, I have had many discussions & questions about the future of XenApp. So, I want to take this opportunity to say that Citrix is not divesting from Windows apps delivery. In fact, it's the opposite in that we are making significant investments to improve Windows app delivery for our customers. In the ...
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Excalibur is XenDesktop 7: what does this mean for XenApp and XenDesktop customers?
Citrix Synergy - Anaheim is shaping up to be another fantastic event this year. There was a lot of energy at the opening keynote, and one of the exciting announcements was around the upcoming XenDesktop 7 release. As many of you recall, Mark announced Project Excalibur tech preview at Citrix Synergy - Europe. Today, we hit an important milestone as Mark officially introduced Project Excalibur as ...
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A recap on blogs covering the Excalibur tech preview…
Happy New Year everyone... I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and is having a fantastic start to 2013! Last November, Citrix released the Excalibur tech preview... Since then, thousands of you have downloaded and have been providing us with very insightful and useful feedback on the Excalibur tech preview forum - we really appreciate everyone's feedback/comments! At the same time, I continue to receive two common ...
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Lifecycle Milestone Update to XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008
In late September, Microsoft announced a change to their lifecycle support for the Windows Server 2008 operating system. This change added 18 months to the Windows Server 2008 mainstream support, moving its end of mainstream support date from Jul 9, 2013 to Jan 13, 2015. You can find more information about this lifecycle milestone change from the Microsoft lifecycle page. As a result of this change ...
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The Excalibur tech preview is available for download!
I'm very excited to share with the Citrix community this morning that the Excalibur tech preview is now available for download. A little background on this tech preview for those who missed the Project Avalon Excalibur buzz at Synergy couple weeks back… At Synergy Barcelona, MarkT made a number of exciting announcements in his keynote, including upcoming the Avalon Excalibur tech preview (a project that near ...
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Want to participate in XenDesktop and XenApp tech preview programs? It just got a lot easier!
In the last couple months, more and more customers have been asking the product team about any upcoming XenDesktop/XenApp tech preview/beta programs; from when will one become available, to how/where they can sign-up. We are very excited to see the strong level of interest and enthusiasm for XenApp/XenDesktop, and we certainly want to make it easy to keep you, our customers, up-to-date on future tech preview programs. And ...
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High Definition Experience for XenApp Fundamentals
Last week, I posted a blog announcing the release of XenApp 6 Fundamentals Edition. One reason I'm very excited about this release is the support for High Definition eXperience (HDX) features. If you regularly follow Citrix and XenApp, you may have already seen some of these features mentioned for other editions of XenApp 6. In this blog, I want to highlight the HDX features introduced ...
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Announcing XenApp 6 Fundamentals Edition
I'm very excited to announce the new release of XenApp 6 Fundamentals Edition, and it's is now available for download from MyCitrix. Customers current on Subscription Advantage (SA) can download this release immediately as a benefit of SA. Like previous releases, XenApp 6 Fundamentals edition continues to be the turnkey application delivery solution for small businesses that enables secure, remote access to users anywhere. What separates ...
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HOW AWESOME IS HDX? Part 2 of 3 – HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage
I was away for a couple of week, but I'm back and very excited to tell you about the HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage device. HDX Plug-n-Play for USB storage is another HDX/High Definition eXperience feature introduced in XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2. I believe this new feature will really eliminate many headaches for XenApp administrators and end users alike. So imagine, users now have ...