Microsoft to enable virtualized streaming of 64-bit apps by 2010
Summary: AT the TechEd Barcelona show this week, Microsoft officials said they will enable App-V to support streaming of 64-bit applications and platforms in the first half of 2010.
Microsoft is continuing to expand on what its application virtualization product (App-V, the product formerly known as SoftGrid) can do.
At the TechEd Barcelona show this week, Microsoft execs touted new capabilities it plans to roll out in this space over the next few years. Officials said they will enable App-V to support streaming of 64-bit applications and platforms in the first half of 2010. The Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testing of this functionality is slated to begin in late 2009.
(A quick refresher: App-V is built from technology Microsoft acquired in early 2006 when it bought Softricity. It lets users run applications without actually installing them on a local machine. This allows companies who want to make available a single image of Office or a custom line-of-business application to multiple users by pushing it out to them without having to touch each desktop. App-V is one piece of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which Microsoft sells to Software Assurance customers only.)
From the MDOP blog:
"By adding 64-bit support, we’re helping to IT administrators take full advantage of new, faster hardware and provide a higher level of service, security and flexibility to their businesses. 64-bit support will be included for both App-V client and server infrastructure components and fully compatible with Microsoft’s 64-bit operating systems."
Microsoft will add 64-bit support to all of the existing App-V offerings -- App-V for desktops, App-V for Terminal Services and App-V for hosters (an option the company just added to its line-up in September 2008).
Microsoft also reiterated in the aforementioned MDOP blog post its timetable for delivery of a new, sixth element to its MDOP collection. A forthcoming offering called MED-V, or Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, is due out in the first half of 2009. A beta of MED-V will be available to testers in the first calendar quarter of next year, according to the company.
MED-V is the repackaged and updated Kidaro virtualization technology which Microsoft acquired earlier this year.
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Does anyone believe a word this software marketing company says anymore?
Believe?
HINT: All of the above. (NT)
It's time that they took a leaf out of Google's book ...
MS has a complete history of vapourware, and let's face it, a lot of their software still doesn't work properly.
I think that they are attempting to spread themselves too thin, which means new "announcements" and "promises" which, if history is anything to go by, all amount to nothing much at all.
Put some substance in your FUD please.
MS are known for over-hyping and under-delivering ....
As overhyping as "this is our year"?
Re:
Betcha he has no clue
RE: Microsoft to enable virtualized streaming of 64-bit apps by 2010
People WANT an OS that is lean mean and secure...Microsoft listens carefully then produces nothing of the sort. As long as companies and individuals keeping throwing money at MS, they will keep under-delivering.
It's way past time for buyers to wise up and spend money on companies that actually provide what people want.
Crazy thing is...
They have used dumb (choiceless) consumer money to trash IT development ...
How is it choice less? Unix/Linux & Macs don't exist? (NT)
The bigger picture of 64-bit apps and virtualization
I see these two initiatives inter-twinning somewhere in the future.
Inter-twining? More like inextricably locked together ...
In certain types of business, where technology really does make a big difference, the winners will be those companies that had "IT" brains with the foresight to avoid MS at all costs ... ie, your whole future and business framework won't twitch an inch no matter what MS decide to do on their next whim ....
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