Citrix on Monday advised its customers that products acquired under its current file-based licensing system will experience “loss of functionality and potential impacts on end-users” next April, and that upgrading to a new cloudy licensing scheme is the way to avoid potential problems.

A support article and blog post explain that the company will replace its file-based licenses with a “cloud-based licensing architecture” that the company claims will mean it can “continue innovating and improving our products to support your business, while also making your licensing experience simpler and more reliable.”

The claim about simpler licensing appears accurate as Citrix’s current scheme sees it issue license files – some of them tied to different versions of products – that users must manage m

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