Microsoft is now reading its Virtualization application for launch in the coming Redmond event next week. It will carry the official name App-V 4.5. This is the latest version of the application and it has a number of tweaks and twists.

App-V 4.5 is used to be called SoftGrid Application Virtualization. This software is Microsoft’s attempt to make the app a mainstream commodity. The software involves functions that benefits application streaming betweens PCs as well control, licensing and update management.

The new app is bundled in the coming version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). The pack will also include other desktop protocols, inventory services programs and System Center error monitoring and other network management applications.

According to Shanen Boettcher, general manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise, they will release the MDOP 2008 R2 “in the next several weeks.”

On related news, Microsoft will also introduce a new Service Providers License Agreement (SPLA) that will allow service providers to use App-V 4.5 to stream products to their subscribers.

Source: CRN

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