So does it sit as an easier/cheaper option to App-V? On 14 December 2011 15:48, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> wrote:
> Yeah…it’s positioned as an app compatibility component, i.e., move to > Windows 7 and still be able to run your legacy (incompatible) apps > seamlessly. The app runs in a VM, but you can’t tell. Plus, it integrates > into Configuration Manager 2007 (and better integration in ConfigMgr 2012) > so you can deploy legacy apps with the VM tether.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:37 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* MED-V**** > > ** ** > > Anyone had any experience of MS' version of desktop virtualization? I just > overheard someone trying to push it in a pre-sales consultancy and I hadn't > heard of it, so I was wondering if it had any serious firepower behind it? > From the marketing blurb it looks like it simply provides a virtualised XP > desktop for legacy apps along the lines of VMWare Workstation/Player, so if > that's true it doesn't seem like a big threat to the likes of XenDesktop. > > Cheers, > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > ****** IMPORTANT INFORMATION/DISCLAIMER ***** > > This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is > addressed. If you have received this message it was obviously addressed to > you and therefore you can read it, even it we didn't mean to send it to > you. 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