Microsoft Tech: Why Microsoft and Citrix need each other

Desktop virtualization company Citrix made news last week with an overhaul of its major product lines and the introduction of “Project Olympus,” a cloud infrastructure stack based on open source software. But pretty high up in CEO Mark Templeton’s keynote at Citrix Synergy Conference 2011 in San Francisco was a big shout out to Microsoft. Microsoft is a big promoter of Citrix’s XenDesktop...