Best Buy Chooses GoToMyPC to Give Consumers Access to New ConnectedLife.Home System, from Anywhere

SANTA BARBARA, CA
February 27, 2007

The Ultimate Digital Lifestyle: Consumers Can Access Networked Home Electronics and Digital Entertainment from Any Remote PC

To enhance the value and convenience of its new ConnectedLife.Home system with remote, Web-based access, Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) has formed an alliance with Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS). Best Buy selected Citrix® GoToMyPC®, the recognized market leader in Web-based remote PC access, to give customers fast, reliable connectivity to ConnectedLife.Home’s Windows® Media Center interface from any computer with an Internet connection. The alliance benefits consumers by expanding the reach of Best Buy’s system beyond home use, making it easy to remotely listen to music, view live feeds from surveillance cameras, and operate home controls from anywhere.

ConnectedLife.Home, which was presented with great fanfare at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, delivers the ultimate in home convenience and home entertainment. Using the latest technologies, ConnectedLife.Home links core home systems, including lighting and comfort controls, with digital home entertainment in a networked environment. The system connects customers to family photos, home movies, music and home automation controls via one easy-to-use interface.

According to David Hemler, vice president of sales and operations for Best Buy’s Business division, GoToMyPC makes the system even more powerful by giving customers universal access to their connected home. “With GoToMyPC our customers can control and monitor their home from anywhere in the world, providing convenience and peace of mind. It gives customers access to their integrated home electronics and digital entertainment from wherever they happen to be. And with GoToMyPC’s new remote sound feature, customers can even listen to their home music collection over the Web in real-time!”

“We selected GoToMyPC, the market leading Web-based remote access service, as the best solution for providing fast, reliable remote access to ConnectedLife.Home,” adds Hemler. “By teaming with Citrix, we are able to offer our customers the best remote access experience.”

ConnectedLife.Home integrates controls for digital entertainment and home automation into a single interface that makes it easy to manage and use these diverse electronics from within the home. By downloading GoToMyPC to the Windows Media Center PC, which is the heart of the ConnectedLife.Home system, consumers using a remote computer with Internet access can:

•Access their integrated home entertainment – including music, movies, photos and more.
•View live feeds from surveillance cameras monitoring child care workers, pets or property.
•Check local weather and adjust the thermostat prior to coming home.
•Create the appearance of activity by turning lights on or off while on vacation.

“Best Buy leads the consumer electronics market and, with ConnectedLife.Home, is paving a new way for consumers to manage their increasingly digital lives, said Brett Caine, general manager of Citrix Online. “GoToMyPC allows consumers to connect to their homes – and the digital life experience – from anywhere in the world. The combination of a connected home and anytime, anywhere remote access is irresistible.”

GoToMyPC provides the fastest and easiest to use remote access service available today. In addition to enabling users to access, view and use everything on their desktop from a remote location, its new Remote Sound capability allows users to listen to anything on their remote PCs, including music, voice-mail, videos, recordings and system sounds in full audio. GoToMyPC provides robust and comprehensive security protection, including Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using 128-bit keys to ensure the privacy of all remote connections.

For more information on GoToMyPC, please visit www.gotomypc.com.

About Citrix
Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) is the global leader and the most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. More than 180,000 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 the Fortune 100 companies and 98% of the Fortune Global 500, as well as hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers. Citrix has approximately 6,200 channel and alliance partners in more than 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2006 was $1.1 billion.

 
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