I'm truly impressed with Microsoft Live Mesh services, it's an awesome approach to cloud computing, however, the service relies on RDP and we all know RDP is not there yet. I'm showing on this screencast a comparison of GoToMyPC and Live Mesh side by side, and suggest add my thoughts on how Microsoft can partner with Citrix to make it better....

We are looking to better prepare Labs and Sessions during this year's PubForum 2008. Alex Danilchev has been kind enough to setup a quick survey to help with this, so if you are attending, please go ahead fill out the survey as we need your participation. ...

Seriously it has always been hard for me to find where and what are the latest hotfixes for the Citrix products... but this picture has changed. With the new revision of Citrix's Support site (support.citrix.com), now it's easier to find the latest fixes and patchs for your Citrix products....

"Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal," said Ballmer....

The Windows PowerShell Team is pleased to release the second Community Technology Preview (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell V2! ...

I have taken all the posts in the introduction series that I released on the Citrix Workflow Studio Partner Tech Preview, and have incorporated them into a single document. ...

As some of you know, a few Microsoft employees have been spotted working with a cool tool called VMRC Plus, which is an improved version of the VMRC client that is deployed together with Virtual Server 2005....

New Microsoft System Center solutions for management of multivendor virtualization, operating systems and applications available for customer evaluation....

The newest release of the suite of tools includes revolutionary capabilities for creative professionals including Silverlight functionality, PHP support and Adobe Photoshop import capabilities. ...

Citrix are pulling out all the stops on the latest NetScaler designed for DataCentre's and HighEnd - OH and it LOOKS GREAT TOO.. Today's web applications are straining traditional load balancers and rigidly-constructed datacenters with the integration of rich media capabilities, service oriented architectures (SOA) and interactive Web 2.0 capabilities. These applications are significantly more complex and resource intensive, yet they must still be delivered with the fastest performance, best s...

Future vision of VDI - What if the Hypervisor was cheaper and flexible enough to run on BladePC?s/BladeWS?s - could vMotion/XenMotion then switch on demand?...

In case you missed the news today, we delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 due to a compatibility issue we found with Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management as Chris Keroack noted on the TechNet Forums... ...

ADI stands for Application Delivery Infrastructure, the category of technologies used to deliver applications. Here you can find best practices, architectures, implementation guides, tools, tips and techniques not only for using Citrix products but for any technology and vendor involved in ADI. ...

Citrix AppExpert is an online community dedicated to NetScaler users. This moderated community is the best place for conversations on how to get the most from your NetScaler deployment, including creative AppExpert policies, innovative configurations, integration with other infrastructure technologies and more ...

This video is a follow-up from my previous one with a bit more information on the app, a greater insight on how it works and how it was built. ...

If you've ever struggled with a feature in Office, if you want to increase your Office know-how, if you want to show others your favorite feature or trick, or if you've had trouble explaining to your friends how to do something, start using Community Clips today!...

Search Commands helps you find commands, options, wizards, and galleries in Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Just type what you?re looking for in your own words and click the command you need. Search Commands also includes Guided Help, which acts as a tour guide for specific tasks. ...

Easily view and change metadata properties in digital photographs including latitude, longitude, and other location details, all from within Windows Explorer....

This mega-conference offers the content of four industry events for a single registration, iForum User Conference, Application Delivery Industry Expo, IT 2.0 Business Symposium, and meet ups with industry tech geeks, analysts and bloggers at the ultimate ?unconference,? where participants choose the topics and run the sessions. Here is a quikc preview of content being delivered....

As IT organizations struggle to keep pace with the demands of business, application delivery has become a major priority for CIOs around the world. Get advice from leading analysts, including Forrester Consulting, on pragmatic steps to transition from application deployment to application delivery....

Check out this video excerpt from Citrix Summit 08 of Citrix Delivery Center and its amazingly fast and easy provisioning of application workloads to virtual and physical servers. Presented by Pete Downing and Brad Peterson....

Attend Citrix Synergy and complete the entry form found in your attendee bag (see image to the left) and drop it off at the Citrix Education booth during Exhibit Hall hours. Attendees may only enter the contest once and must be present during the drawing to win. The drawing will be held in the Exhibit Hall theatre on Thursday, May 22nd at 1:00pm....

At Citrix Synergy, you can take the latest Citrix Exams at our on-site testing center and get a second chance to pass - free! If needed, you'll receive an exam retake voucher for the same exam, which can be redeemed at any Prometric testing center worldwide....

Participate in a Citrix Hands On Technical Workshop (HOT) at Citrix Synergy and receive a coupon for 15% off of a Citrix Training Pass and you can get up to a savings of $750! ...

Delaware Release Preview has been released to web. Download the bits, documentation and the license file to kick off your evaluation of XenApp on Windows Server 2008. ...

Drive greater IT operating efficiency through integrated end-to-end virtualization to reduce costs, maximize system availability, and drive operational agility. ...

Citrix Fast Launch is an application/extension that expedites the launching of applications virtualized with Citrix XenApp. Citrix will release it soon as a freeware on the CDN site. ...

Advanced NetScaler Solutions Secure and Accelerate the Most Complex Web Applications and Support Next-Generation Dynamic Datacenters ...

New Citrix NetScaler MPX Slashes Datacenter Costs by Delivering Twice as Many Web Applications with Same Infrastructure Footprint....

Satori Group uses XenServer, XenApp or Citrix Access Essentials to simplify and streamline delivery of their solution to their customers using Citrix virtualization technologies. Nice implementation of the VADA concept. ...

Citrix and Marathon Technologies announced today an expanded partnership to more tightly integrate Marathon's everRun solution with Citrix XenServer . ...

I had a chat this Friday with Orestes who's the Director of Product Management for the XenApp product line, formerly known as Presentation Server. We talked about the name change - clearing the smoke aroung it, a look down the road - project Delaware (XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008), and the upcoming Synergy event. ...

GoToAssist Express Beta was just updated to a new version, the current build is now 8.0, and there are some new features addded and bug fixes included in this release....

The Apollo team is busy developing several new technologies for multimedia virtualization. Details of the upcoming Tech Preview release of Apollo Accelerated Bitmap Remoting have now been posted on the Citrix.com web site. ...

One of the new tracks at Citrix Synergy this year is Geek Speak. James Rabey blogged recently about the format of GeekSpeak Live at Synergy. A second part of the GeekSpeak track is GeekSpeak BarCamp. I have blogged about this event at Synergy here and here....

The heavy hitters in technology are lining up to join the conversation at Citrix Synergy. You already heard about the best selling technology author Nicholas Carr, the versatile comedian Dana Carvey and the Senior Vice President from Microsoft Bob Muglia. The line up of intriguing keynote speakers does not stop there. ...

Windows Speech Recognition Macros extends the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista. Users can create powerful macros that are triggered by voice command to interact with applications....

Autonomic security, AKA, self-healing, self-defending, situation aware security, or feedback-based security management, has long been a dream in distributed IT computing. It could be the reason that this dream was not realized is that it is too hard to do in distributed computing....

I am excited that we are now ready to tap into the power of the community to spread the knowledge power of AppExpert amongst the user base of Citrix application networking products!...

In his blog, Ken Hess talks about how some companies complain that they're not realizing the savings in hardware, software and management that they hoped to from server virtualization. While he eventually points out that they can, in fact, benefit from "greening" (power, cooling and real estate) and service contract savings, he misses the fact that companies can realize significant savings in each of these areas -- if they implement the right solution. ...