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Managing Applications
Microsoft acquired a company called Softricity back in July 2006. As part of
that acquisition, they also acquired an interesting new solution called SoftGrid
Application Virtualization. This idea behind this piece of technology is to virtualize
the application itself, rather than the underlying operating system. The theory is
that an application contained in this format would never actually be installed on the
target computer, but rather could just be hosted as a guest on any desired computer,
regardless of where that computer or its intended user might be ...
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