Microsoft's effectively delivering a major portion of their application and desktop virtualization strategy in MDOP. Anything with "optimization pack" in its name sounds like an optional, relatively small feature set upgrade. What I find truly interesting is the lack of fanfare Microsoft is putting around MDOP. You can even see it in SharePoint's Excel app services, which pushed Excel processing, graphing and display for lighter weight delivery through the browser. I was looking for a new generation of OS, one based around componentized applications, virtualized and distributable to different elements of the network, enabled by a thinner, more lightweight desktop OS enabling app virtualization. While my guesses into exactly how Microsoft would deliver app virtualization to us wasn't spot on, we are seeing the disaggregation of the desktop, but in just a more subtle form than I expected.
Microsoft's managed to split those hairs and deliver Kidaro's and SoftGrid's features largely through MDOP.
I could choose any one of these, or more, as highly significant capabilities within W7 or WS 2008 R2, but frankly, I've most anticipated what Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is bringing to the table, which are largely enabled through Softricity SoftGrid.ĭuring 2008, I wrote about several acquisitions Microsoft made in the app virtualization space Kidaro, SoftGrid and Calista along, with the challenge of disaggregating the desktop while still being a Windows desktop centric OS company. Live Migration, application virtualization (via Kidaro and SoftGrid), Direct Access VPN-less connectivity, AppLocker, and more recently, virtualized XP hosted within Windows 7.these are some of the many things in these three releases we've been hearing about for a long, long time, and now they are showing up in Microsoft products. Network World has a new article out delving in the trifecta of the Microsoft WS 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack releases.
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