Citrix on the iPhone - Silverlight and Cut and Paste
Just been catching up with the progress on the new iPhone Citrix reciever software over on the Citrix community website. They’ve been busy, they’ve posted a number of new posts showing off their latest work and they’ve also been out at MacWorld doing demo’s of the new Citrix reciever software. The MacWorld demo’s interestingly enough utilises a Citrix server in the cloud, on Amazon EC2 to be precise.
So what new stuff have they been working on for us, well first off was a demonstration of a silverlight website on the iPhone. Now most of you who have iPhones will know that it is seriously let down by it’s lack of flash support, well maybe silverlight is ready to step in and fill that gap? well with the iPhone at least, check out the demonstration video below.
The other cool thing I spotted while I was looking through was Cut and Paste on the iPhone. Now watching the demo video you will see that the user appears to be within the Citrix reciever application, if you look closely you will see sharepoint as well as office applications in the app list. As the demo moves on you can see the user accessing office 2007 as a published application, looks excellent so far. The user in the video then proceeds to cut an paste some text from PowerPoint into Word 2007, check it out for yourself.
Now it appears I missed one video last time I was on the site, this time it’s the keynote from the Citrix Summit 2008. It’s a great demonstration of the smooth roaming capability that Citrix supports, showing the session jumping from one iPhone over to an iPhone simulator on a Mac and back again. It also shows some of the traditional benefits of Citrix, only screen refreshes and keyboard presses are transferred allowing a 16Mb picture to be opened quickly over 3G.
1st half of 2009 is what’s being talked about for the release, I can’t wait!!!
