iPad enthusiasts around the world are probably having a hard time right now selling their companies on the new gadget, well Citrix wants to help you with that.
They announced yesterday that they are planning to release an iPad version of their Citrix receiver software. What does that mean? Well, if your company runs Citrix solutions, you’ll be able to use systems like Microsoft’s Windows 7 on your iPad, virtually at least:
It turns out the 9.7-inch display on the iPad with a 1024×768 screen resolution works great for a full-VDI XenDesktop. Windows applications run unmodified and securely in the data center, and even multiple applications at once
Citrix’ VP admits this might mostly be a good argument for people to convince their company to get them the new toy, but he believes the potential is huge.
It makes me think that, for the rest of us, a good multi-touch enhanced VNC client could be an amazing app, don’t you think?
Absolutely! But there’s still, unfortunately, the hurdle of VPN. If they solve that for the iPad/iPhone, then Citrix can really roll.
Wow!!! Citrix is reinventing the wheel! There already exists a solution from NTRglobal. As all iPhone Apps will be available and running for the iPad as well use NTRconnect free and remote control your PC via iPad or iPhone. Just like that, no big deal. See here:
http://www.ntrglobal.com/ntrconnect/en/remote-access-software.asp
Which idiot would like to use Windows 7 on an iPad? That is like buying a Porsche and putting an anchor behind it…
So comments get deleted over here… Why???
Again: There is already a solution. NTRconnect free. Just look it up at apple store or Google it. Its for free and lets you remote control your PC from an iPad as well as from an iPhone.
Probably the guys here don´t want links on the posts…
So that you know… this is as far is it ever will go with running Windows on that machine. Unless Microsoft compiles Windows for the A1 chip – which I am not seeing at any point in the future. Another way out would obviously be to have the source code of Windows, throw it on a Mac, convert to an XCode project, and then compile for iPad. Easy!