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Currently Playing: The Elusive WinView for Networks: How Citrix Escaped Collapse in the ’90s

Before becoming a billion-dollar business, Citrix nearly went under in the early '90s. Their first product, MULTIUSER, was built on OS/2 and doomed from the start — just as Microsoft pulled the plug. What followed was a rollercoaster of last-minute investments from Intel and — more surprisingly — Microsoft, along with a commitment to Windows, years before WinFrame and MetaFrame arrived. In this episode, we dig into the nearly forgotten WinView for Networks — still based on OS/2 — and a key stepping stone before Windows NT. I'm THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR — and this is the story before WinFrame. 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! 00:00 Intro 00:54 1991: Citrix On The Edge of Collapse 02:13 WinView for Networks = OS/2 For Windows? 06:03 WinView Out-of-Box Experience 07:52 The Windows NT Evolution 08:48 MetaFrame - Embracing UNIX 09:20 Conclusion Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Balint Szy Cecil Feldi HMK Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal John DiLiberto Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety MS-DOS Manfred Steven Glogger Tim Hull Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: History: https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/98/Citrix-Systems-Inc.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Systems#WinView https://archive.org/details/OS2ProfessionalMagazine/Os2Professional_v01_n09_dec1993/mode/2up?q=citrix+winview https://betawiki.net/wiki/Citrix_WinFrame WinView: https://archive.org/details/professional-soft-collection-vol02-1995-classik-fond https://archive.org/details/citrix-win-view_2.3 Media/News: WinView TCP/IP https://archive.org/details/networkworld1138unse/mode/2up?q=citrix+winview https://www.techmonitor.ai/technology/citrix_unveils_winview_for_windows_suitable_for_remote_site_users https://redcircle.blog/2006/10/08/winview/ https://archive.org/details/networkworld1019unse/page/14/mode/2up OS/2 related: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-history/os2-timeline/ https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YlAEAAAAMBAJ/mode/2up?q=microsoft https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_iVAEAAAAMBAJ https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1991-02-04_25_5