Hi all
For my own education please, I need someone to explain a potentially far reaching decision made by our IT people at work.... At present, we're still stuck on Windows XP and MS Office 2003. The system works quite well but is beginning to struggle with the big datasets I have to handle. So they've just bought Windows 7 PCs and the spec is pretty good (Intel i5, 8Gb RAM). The most bizarre thing is myself and my colleague have been asked to test them as "power users" and the implementation they've deployed is via a "Citrix container" - whatever that is. I freely admit to knowing next to nothing about Citrix but I thought this was something akin to remotely controlling another PC - except that the PC you're remotely controlling was virtual - is this wrong? If I'm right, surely it means that all this wonderful Intel i5 power is effectively being used as a terminal and the speed we'll have is the speed of the machine we're controlling. The reason I ask is there's some specialist software for the visually impaired that I use which is never going to work over Citrix because it was never designed to do so. I have a nasty feeling that they're going to turn around and say my software can't be used - and that could have very far reaching consequences for me. So what is Citrix and can anyone see why they may have set things up in this way? Cheers Rob
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