Microsoft and Citrix Systems, Inc., working together.

Microsoft | Citrix Systems, Inc.

Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver any application to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security and lowest cost. Citrix customers include 100% of Fortune 100 companies and 99% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,400 channel and alliance partners in more than 130+ countries. Annual revenues in 2007 were $1.4B.

Hear what Bob Muglia, Sr. Vice President of Server Tools at Microsoft, has to say about the relationship between Microsoft and Citrix.

Better Together

"Better Together." These simple words do more than define the Microsoft-Citrix partnership; they define the philosophy that enables better and more cost effective solution to customers.

Better Together is what provides secure access to Microsoft applications, optimizes the infrastructures that make companies more efficient, and delivers dynamic desktops to customers no matter where they do business. In other words, Better Together enables Microsoft and Citrix to offer more complete and more robust solutions to customers.

Better Partners

Citrix generates incremental revenue for Microsoft. How?

99% of Citrix business is on Windows.
Citrix has 200,000 customers worldwide, representing approximately 80 million users.
There are over 100,000 companies worldwide that use both Office and Citrix today.
79% of Citrix customers use Citrix XenApp to publish Microsoft Office.
85% of Citrix Presentation Server clients are rich clients.
Citrix won the ISV of the Year in 2003, 2005 and 2008!

Driving the Virtualization Solution

Citrix and Microsoft joined forces in building a better virtualization solution to allow customers more choices.

Microsoft and Citrix Extend Virtualization Alliance

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Companies Standardize on Virtualization Format, Making it Easier for Customers to Deliver Desktops and Applications to End Users

September 2007

Today at VMworld 2007, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq “CTXS”) announced that they have strengthened their longtime integration alliance in the desktop and application delivery market by standardizing on the Microsoft® Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format as a common runtime environment for both virtualized operating systems and applications. This collaboration will result in future versions of Citrix’s Desktop Server and virtual application solutions adopting the Microsoft VHD format. At the same time, Microsoft plans to adapt a future version of Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for both the desktop and Terminal Services to the VHD format. Microsoft and Citrix will also collaborate on emerging virtualization technologies and virtual infrastructure management tools to help ensure interoperability and simplified administration for end users.
To read the full Press Release, please click here.

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Joint Technology Collaboration

Citrix and Microsoft signed a Joint Collaboration Agreement that spans till the end of 2009. This agreement allows for deep collaboration between Citrix and Microsoft developers on the Windows platform today and into the future.