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The rumors from earlier this spring turned out to get true: Microsoft is licensing its application virtualization technologies to hosting providers, setting the stage for hosters to offer you third-party software like a company.
The back again tale: Microsoft provides application-virtualization technology — formerly known as SoftGrid and now called “App-V” — as one of a number of elements of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) to its Software program Assurance customers.
(App-V is based on technology Microsoft acquired when it bought Softricity in early 2006. It lets users run applications without actually installing them on a local machine. This allows organizations who want to make available a single image of Office or even a custom line-of-business application to multiple users to push it out to them without having to touch each desktop.)
Microsoft announced on September 3 the release- to-manufacturing of the latest version of App-V (version 4.5). Users can’t get their hands on 4.5 yet, however; Microsoft is still a few weeks away from the rest of the MDOP suite going RTM and App-V is not available from Microsoft as being a standalone product.
As of October 1, App-V will be available in another form: Indirectly via Microsoft hosting partners. Microsoft has added a new Support Companies License Agreement (SPLA) option, which enables hosters to deliver various third-party software program as services, streamed over App-V.
Here are the details,Windows 7 Product Key, from a new posting on the Official MDOP Blog:
“App-V 4.5 will also feature a new Company Providers License Agreement (SPLA),Windows 7 Download, officially called Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Hosting for Desktops,Office 2007 Key, which will enable service companies to use App-V 4.5 to deliver third-party ISV developed applications to customers via the Software being a Services (SaaS) model. SaaS powered by App-V is a key enabler to closing the ‘digital divide’ that exists between large enterprises with robust IT capabilities, and small businesses with limited resources. By outsourcing IT functions via company companies, small businesses are able to focus less on maintaining an IT infrastructure and more on growing their core businesses, which in turn allows them to compete more effectively in the marketplace.It’s an important opportunity for businesses to optimize their desktops,Office Professional 2010, even if they lack the resources to build them out in-house.”
When word leaked earlier this year of Microsoft making App-V available in new ways, some speculated that Microsoft would use App-V to deliver Office as a streamed company. Actually, Software program Assurance users already can stream Office with App-V.
Interestingly, Microsoft is not allowing hosters to stream any Microsoft software program using App-V. So don’t expect hosters to get delivering “Office being a Support,” “Dynamics ERP as being a Company,” etc. The new SPLA specifies only third-party software from providers other than Microsoft.
Microsoft may allow hosters to stream Microsoft software program over App-V at some point, said Scott Woodgate, a director in the Windows Business Group. “It’s not off the table,” he said.
On September 3, Microsoft also announced some changes to the Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) license that will take effect as of January 1, 2009. Woodgate said Microsoft is “getting ahead of the curve” by extending the existing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) license to cover three, so-far-fledgling, scenarios. As explained in the September 3 MDOP Blog posting,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, the three new arenas and pricing will be:
“Employee owned machines: Some providers are trialing permitting users to buy the PC of their choice with a company stipend. The changes enable early-adopter agencies to let users purchase with the PC of their choice, but still perform business tasks in a secure, standard Windows Vista desktop image running in a virtual machine. IT departments can enable this scenario via VECD for $110 per PC/year.
“Contract Workers: Agencies can use VECD to deploy a standard, sandboxed, Windows Vista virtual machine for use on contractor machines for $110 per PC/yr.
“Desktop-based employees who occasionally from home: VECD also enables desktop-based workers to take a local copy of their Windows Vista virtual machine to any VECD covered Windows machine at work or to take it home. VECD permits this scenario for $23 per PC /year.”
Anyone see any gotchas in any of these new virtual licensing scenarios that Microsoft unveiled today? Meanwhile, any Microsoft hosting partners out there interested in using App-V to stream third-party software?