My law firm uses PCs running Windows, but I am a Mac user at home. I have lots of options for working at home on my Mac, but one of the best is to use a Citrix web portal to access a virtual Windows desktop managed by my firm that includes all of the key software that we use at my firm (such as Outlook and our document management system). Thus, for the past few months I have been reading with interest all of the stories about Citrix developing an iPhone App called XenDesktop that will allow a user to access a law firm's virtual desktop from an iPhone. Examples: this one from ZDNet and this one from InfoWorld.
Here is a YouTube video from a few months ago where someone from Citrix shows an early preview of the product:
And here is a video showing off what looks to be a more recent version:
I have a lot of questions about how this will work in practice, but it is exciting to see Citix working on this product and I hope it is released soon. In the second article I cited above, the Vice President of Solutions Development at Citrix, Chris Fleck, is quoted as saying: "We expect to have it sooner rather than later." I'll mark my calendar. [UPDATE on 12-12-08: This article in Network World also discusses the upcoming product, and notes only that the product will be available in 2009.]
