The story: Desktop virtualization is grabbing the headlines, but a wave of acquisitions and new product releases point to success for application virtualization — and heralds a better way to manage ...

Microsoft App-V speeds application deployment by eliminating the need for apps to be installed locally on each client. By streaming software through a centrally managed service, the product enables IT ...

Microsoft looks to be building its App-V application virtualization client directly into Windows 10 Enterprise with the upcoming "Redstone" Windows 10 release. App-V-- a Microsoft virtualization ...

With Microsoft App-V, you can stream applications on demand, cache for offline use and manage a single package for easy deployment and maintenance. Is application virtualization on your wish list? If ...

Over the past 10 years, few technologies have revolutionized IT and computing the way virtualization has. IT tasks and workflows that once required physical, one-to-one interaction with servers and ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 enables large ...

I have a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium. It's use is for very basic things: surf the internet, watch videos, play music, etc, so it's nothing special about it at all. However, I found a 800 MB ...

Have you heard? Thin is “in” again. From VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) to RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to SVS (Software Virtualization Service), the ghosts of thin client computing are being ...

One of the big questions in technology for the last three years has been how end users will adopt desktop virtualization. The answer, at least from some early adopters, seems to be “how won’t we do it ...

It is around 290 KB and usually does not take up much CPU usage. In case the Microsoft Application Virtualization Client Shell Notifier (AppVShNotify.exe) file is behaving abnormally on your computer ...

(Editor’s note: This story initially misstated that Microsoft is now letting corporate users do desktop virtualization with any version of Windows Vista via its server-based Vista Enterprise ...

The virtualization models for clients are, arguably, more diverse than those for servers. For servers there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic ...