POWER TO THE PEOPLE

摘要

A slate of contentious issues-social, economic, and technological-will radically alter the business user's computing experience by the end of this decade. Windows XP is the corporate standard desktop and will be for years to come. How employees receive the XP experience, however, will undergo a dramatic shift in as little as two years, whether IT is ready or not. Application and desktop streaming toolsets, robust Web apps, the increasing power of smartphones, and multiple varieties of desktop virtualization are challenging our basic assumptions about what the terms "computer" and "operating system" mean.