O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Windows 7 will ship this week and from all accounts, it is the best operating system shipped from Microsoft since Windows 2000. Note, this is not my opinion based on the Microsoft's marketing campaign, but my personal experience evaluating the...

A couple of months ago, I got a brand new Dell laptop. To future-proof it, I ordered it with enough RAM that it needed 64-bit Windows to fully use all that muscle. So, once my in-house IT department (AKA my wonderful husband) installed Windows 7 on it, I fired it up for the first time and went through the process of setting it up to connect to the servers at work. Oops! I immediately had a problem. The Citrix client that the company I work for provides for download and installation won't even install to 64-bit Windows, and according to Server Guy (yes, that's his official title), the 64-bit clients it does make require an upgrade to the servers.