When I moved to VMware last year, I was often asked by friends and colleagues why I chose to leave consumer apps for enterprise apps.  There’s a lot of different reasons, but VMware’s CIO summed up one of them very well in this interview with the Wall Street Journal:

You’re at home and you have Facebook, you have Twitter: great UI, you’re able to collaborate, there’s no training classes for that. You go into the enterprise and you’ve got Soviet-era interfaces and they’re horrible. What we have to do as IT professionals, is take that consumer experience which is easy, bring that into the enterprise and help businesses actually be much more productive.

Yup, that’s it.  There’s a great opportunity for me here at VMware to help people be more productive at work.  I don’t necessarily think that we’re going to get to a Twitter UI, but there’s awesome things that we can do with things like the Horizon App Manager that make the lives of both end users and admins a lot better.