Posted on June 13, 2008 by Sven Huisman
You probably already knew that starting with version 4.5 the official name for Softgrid will be Microsoft Application Virtualization. Microsoft now announced that there will also be a new official short name: App-V.
App-V and Hyper-V, I must say, that doesn’t sound so bad. What’s next? Terminal-V, Mail-V, DB-V? 
Read the article on the App-V blog.
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It needs to be said that “App-V” won’t be available for every customer! Microsoft only sells “App-V” within their Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) and MDOP is only available for Microsoft Software Assurance customers.
This is in my opinion a strange choice because Microsoft really put’s a break on their Application Virtualization strategy like this. What would be the reason?
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