Microsoft recently announced their intention to purchase Softricity.
Microsoft’s current virtualization software is designed to run multiple instances of Windows simultaneously. Softricity’s tools let companies virtualize applications that run on Windows, such as Microsoft Office or other business applications, so that programs can be managed centrally and delivered over a network to desktop machines.
With Softgrid, from Softricity, Microsoft can offer network-based applications that execute in Vista on the desktop, which means they can tap into all the advanced graphics and other performance benefits of Vista while still having all the connectivity-led advantages that browser-based applications enjoy.
A quote from David Greschler, Softricity’s co-founder and VP marketing in an article in ZDnet states:
“What we do is we make these applications act like applications that are living in an on-demand world,” Greschler explained. “We’ve transformed every Windows application out there — including DOS applications — into on-demand applications.”
Microsoft needs to develop its Application Virtualisation strategy further to fend off competion from the likes of Google, and this acquistion will assist in that process.
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