Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 17:06 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Microsoft showed its new 'Softgrid' technology today that allows apps to run as if they were inside a second copy of Windows. But unlike traditional virtualisation apps, there's no second Windows desktop getting in the way. For example, Microsoft showed Office 2003 and Office 2007 running side-by-side, even though they can't actually be installed on the same copy of Windows. Initially, the technology is for corporate users only, but it has huge obvious benefits for home users as well. First steps towards this?
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2005-10-11
I deploy and work with Softgrid a lot, it's a great product but it has one very big disadvantage.
Let's say you virtualize Office 2003, if you want to use Adobe PDF within Office 2003 you have to virtualize it together with Office.
Softgrid is only used for exotic applications that have no connection to other applications, if it has it becomes pretty useless, so that's why it's never recommended to virtualize applications like office, acrobat reader etc.